UK National Lottery operator Camelot claims that it’s not entirely incompetent, pointing to the extremely modest sales bump in the company’s latest annual report.

On Friday, Camelot UK Lotteries Ltd announced that National Lottery sales over the 12 months ending March 31 totaled £6.95b, a mere one-third of one percent higher than the total recorded in the company’s 2016-17 fiscal year.

Camelot’s recently appointed CEO Nigel Railton claimed that the minor uptick in sales was actually an impressive “achievement” given that disappointing results over the first half of fiscal 2017-18 had led the company to anticipate “a further sales decline” for the year as a whole.

Railton claimed that the late save was proof that initiatives the company enacted via its strategic review of operations – which was launched following last year’s 8.8% year-on-year sales decline – were starting to “play a part” in the company’s rebound.