National Lottery ticket price increase

Ticket prices for the weekly National Lottery draws will increase from £1 to £2 from 3 October, Camelot has announced.

The National Lottery operator said in January that it would double the price of a ticket for Lotto, the main National Lottery game, and predicted that the amount of money that it passes on to good causes would increase as a result.

It said at the time that the changes were being made to rejuvenate and re-energise the Lotto game and increase the amount it contributes to good causes.

It is the first price increase since the game started in 1994.

Camelot has now announced that tickets for the new Lotto would go on sale on 3 October with 1,000 guaranteed £20,000 prizes and a £10million jackpot for the first two Saturday draws, on 5 and 12 October.

The updated game will also include an increase in the prize for matching three numbers from £10 to £25 and an anticipated increase in size of the average jackpot prizes from £3.9million to £5million for the Saturday draw and from £2.1million to £2.5million for the Wednesday draw.

The National Lottery gives 28 pence in every pound to good causes and has raised more than £30billion since 1994.