Clause 4 - Remote gambling
Gambling Bill
4:00 pm
Mr Malcolm Moss (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
I was a bit saddened to hear the Minister's comments. We had a discussion earlier today about level playing fields, competition, fairness and so on, but one part of our entertainment and gambling industry must apparently pay two licence fees. If I heard the Minister correctly, there will be one licence fee under the bingo operator regulations and another for remote gambling under clause 4. I
understood him to say that there would have to be such regulation. Bingo institutions are regulated under the gambling commission anyway, so I do not see a problem—they will come within the wider remit of the commission. They are extremely worried that if they are caught by clause 4 on remote gambling they will have to pay an extra licence fee.