National Lottery travel exemption

[_V_]

Is there anything left in this country that is not foreign owned ?

Even water companies are owned by some Middle East sovereign fund.

Very little is still owned by British companies or British shareholders. Mostly our infrastructure is owned by large sovereign wealth funds, private venture capital companies and foreign holdings companies.

Blame the UK governments of the last 50 years.

[SimonMac]

This begs the question, why would someone be travelling from outside the UK to put in a tender for the UK lottery?

Because Camelot is owned by a Canadian company

[fullyautomatix]

Is there anything left in this country that is not foreign owned ?

Even water companies are owned by some Middle East sovereign fund.

[_V_]

This begs the question, why would someone be travelling from outside the UK to put in a tender for the UK lottery?

Camelot, the current holders of the Lotto franchise in the UK are Canadian. This means the profits have been going to boost Canadians pensions for a very long time.

[edison]

This begs the question, why would someone be travelling from outside the UK to put in a tender for the UK lottery?

I can't see any reference that states only UK companies can apply for the tender?

[ladymuck]

This begs the question, why would someone be travelling from outside the UK to put in a tender for the UK lottery?

Why indeed...

It could also be that you're from within the UK but selfishly went on holiday

[darmstadt]

Turns out that, if you're working on a bid for the next National Lottery contract, you don't have to self-isolate when you enter the UK. New exemption, effective from today.

Coronavirus (COVID-19): jobs that qualify for travel exemptions - GOV.UK

Quite an interesting and ever-growing list of exemptions going on there.

This begs the question, why would someone be travelling from outside the UK to put in a tender for the UK lottery?

[Paddy]

Turns out that, if you're working on a bid for the next National Lottery contract, you don't have to self-isolate when you enter the UK. New exemption, effective from today.

Coronavirus (COVID-19): jobs that qualify for travel exemptions - GOV.UK

Quite an interesting and ever-growing list of exemptions going on there.

I though this would be about if you win the lottery you are exempt.

[ladymuck]

Turns out that, if you're working on a bid for the next National Lottery contract, you don't have to self-isolate when you enter the UK. New exemption, effective from today.

Coronavirus (COVID-19): jobs that qualify for travel exemptions - GOV.UK

Quite an interesting and ever-growing list of exemptions going on there.