ABSTRACT
National Lotteries are not new in British history. State-sponsored lotteries were held at fairly frequent intervals between 1569 and 1826 when they were effectively banned. The success of lotteries in other countries proved that state or national lotteries could provide a popular form of gambling that could be utilized to pay for good causes. The Conservative Government decided to run a National Lottery and set up the Department of the National Heritage (now the Department for Culture, Media and Sport) to do so and the National Lottery was publicly launched in November 1994.
