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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rob Davies

UK national lottery funding too concentrated in south, Nandy says

A national lottery sign outside a shop in London
The national lottery has collected more than £53bn for good causes since its launch in 1994. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Funding from the national lottery is too heavily concentrated in the south, the culture secretary has said, as she launched the first review in more than 20 years into how billons raised by ticket sales is spent.

In comments that chime with Andy Burnham’s pledge to devolve more power from London if he becomes prime minister, Nandy said the model governing how lottery money is spent was “showing its age”.

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