Jersey Lottery and Channel Islands Lottery (FOI)

​Request

A

Can you please confirm the date of the establishment of the Jersey Lottery?

Please can you list the total lottery revenue and the percentage that went to Fort Regent each year that the Jersey Lottery was in existence?

B

Can you please confirm the date of the establishment of the Channel Islands Lottery?

Please can you list the total lottery revenue and the percentage that went to Fort Regent each year since the creation of the Channel Islands Lottery?

C

In both cases, please can you specify who or what body decided on the allocation of lottery revenue please?

Response

A and C 

This information is available in response to a previous Freedom of Information request which can be accessed via the link below. Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law has been applied. 

Channel Islands Lottery - Fort Regent Funding (FOI)​

B

For the sake of clarity, in 1967 the States Assembly adopted a proposition that profits from the public lotteries be devoted to Fort Regent (this is what is referred to as the Jersey Lottery).  In 2001 the States Assembly adopted P.11/2001 Channel Islands Lottery: future format and allocation of profits (this is what is referred to as the Channel Islands Lottery).  

Information in relation to the establishment of Channel Islands Lottery is available in response to a previous Freedom of Information response as linked above. Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law has been applied. 

Details in for the total review and percentage that was given to Fort Regent for the last ten years is available in response to a previous Freedom of Information response as linked above. Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law has been applied. Going further back to the inception of the CI Lottery in 2001, no proceeds were used towards Fort Regent. 

Article applied

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.​