Admin costs take one sixth of funding away from Lottery Good Causes
One sixth of Lottery Good Cause funding is spent on admin each year a new report 
from the Conservative Party has exposed. In 2006/07 £205 million was spent on administration across the lottery bodies the equivalent to 5p from every lottery ticket sold. With funding to Good Causes marked at 28p from each lottery ticket, administration costs are taking a huge chunk away from sports, arts and charities.
The admin costs include staff salaries and expenses, nearly half a million pounds on consultancy fees, and £616,800 that finds its way back to the Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport to pay for surveys and staff overheads.
Shadow Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt commented:
“People buy National Lottery tickets to support good causes, not pay for government overheads and surveys. This money is not a pot for Ministers to dip into, whether to fund their own bureaucracy or their mistakes on the Olympic budget. We need a crack down on National Lottery overheads so more money gets to the good causes it was set up to support."