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Chamber and committees

Lifting the £50 Million Charity Cap

  • Submitted by: Kenneth Gibson, Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party.
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 23 November 2023
  • Motion reference: S6M-11319
  • Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, 01 February 2024

That the Parliament acknowledges the incredible amount of money raised by charity lotteries in the UK, including the Scotland-based People’s Postcode Lottery, the players of which have raised what it sees as a phenomenal £1.2 billion for good causes across the country; understands that the demand for funding from charities has greatly increased amid the cost of living crisis and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic; believes that the current £50 million cap on annual charity lottery sales serves no purpose, and that it is impacting the ability of charity lotteries to increase the amount of funding that they can provide to charities and good causes; notes the view that charities, including those in the Cunninghame North constituency, will continue to miss out on millions of pounds of funding so long as the sales cap remains in place, and further notes the calls for the UK Government to remove the charity lottery annual sales limit as a matter of urgency so that charities across the country are not missing out on vital funding when they need it most.


Supported by: Karen Adam, Clare Adamson, Jeremy Balfour, Miles Briggs, Stephanie Callaghan, Annabelle Ewing, Jim Fairlie, Emma Harper, Bill Kidd, Audrey Nicoll, Kevin Stewart, Paul Sweeney, Michelle Thomson, David Torrance, Evelyn Tweed