Camelot generated sales of £8.1bn for the 2021/22 financial year, a decrease of £283.2m on last year’s record sales.
The lottery operator said draw-based game sales stood at £4.6bn for the year, a slight dip of £43.2m, with the majority of the decline attributable to a decrease in sales of National Lottery Instants. Scratchcard sales remain below pre-pandemic levels “in line with people’s changing shopping habits”, while sales of online Instant Win Games were further affected by lower play and wallet load limits for potentially at-risk players. However, there were 1.8 million new online registrations, Camelot said.
The lottery operator reported in-store sales of £4.7bn in 2021/22 – down from £4.9bn in 2020/21 – and National Lottery retailers earned £265.4m in commission, the equivalent of around £6,000 per store.
Camelot Chief Executive, Nigel Railton, said: “Achieving National Lottery sales of over £8bn two years in a row while maintaining very high levels of public participation – despite the challenging and changing external environment – proves that our strategy of offering great consumer choice in a safe and convenient way continues to be hugely successful.”
