LOTTERY ASYLUM GRANT

Date: 23rd October 2002
Released by: ANDREW TURNER
Member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight MP, Andrew Turner has expressed concerns over lottery funding.

The concerns have been raised after the reports that the anti-deportation charity, The National Coalitions of Anti-Deportation Campaigns (NCADC), have received a grant from the National Lottery of £340,000.

Mr Turner is calling for lottery-players to have the right to choose where their money is to go so that only charities which people would support would receive Lottery funding.

Mr Turner said, “The Lottery grant to the NCADC will fly in the face of many people’s personal opinions. Lottery-players expect their £-a-week to go to good causes, not politically correct campaigns, and the NCADC is quite simply a group which campaigns for failed asylum seekers to stay in the Britain even when the courts have agreed that there is not merit in their claim.

“I believe lottery players should have a much greater say over which good causes their contributions support.”