EASTWOOD MP Gloria De Piero is leading calls for information on how much money is spent on lottery tickets in every Parliamentary constituency to be released to the public.

The calls come because Ms De Piero believes some areas – including her Ashfield constituency – do not receive fair amounts of funding for local good causes compared to how much residents in those areas spend on lottery tickets.

Although information on what projects lottery money is spent on is available in the public domain, no data on how much each constituency spends on tickets has been released by National Lottery operator Camelot since 1999.

When these figures were released they showed that in some areas ‘the money spent on tickets was out of kilter with what they received back for good causes’, said the Labour MP. read more ….