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cross-party committee of MPs has provided further substantiation
to the NCVO’s continuing efforts to ensure additional
lottery cash is not diverted to fund the spiralling cost of
the 2012 Olympic Games.
The Culture Media and Sport Select Committee reported on
24 January, saying that good causes should not be unfairly
penalised by increasing infrastructure costs for the Olympic
and Paralympic Games. The MPs also supported the NCVO’s
call for the 12% tax on Lottery tickets to be put towards
the Olympic shortfall.
NCVO’s director of public policy, Liz Atkins, said
that a further diversion of Lottery funds could mean a loss
of over £300 million in funding for good causes. “This
cross-party report demonstrates the strength of feeling
in all parties that other good causes should not lose out
as a result of the increased cost of the Olympics,”
she said.
The Committee’s report is due to be published at
www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/culture__media_and_sport.cfm
but had not yet been so at time of writing.
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