Casinos
Culture Media and Sport
Written answers and statements, 14 July 2006
Malcolm Moss (Shadow Minister (Culture, Media & Sport), Culture, Media & Sport; North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what measures have been taken to ensure that the decision-making process of the Casino Advisory Panel is transparent and objective.
Richard Caborn (Minister of State (Sport), Department for Culture, Media & Sport; Sheffield Central, Labour)
The Casino Advisory Panel is required to operate within a Framework Document and Code of Practice, which have been agreed with the Secretary of State and copies of which are available on the Casino Advisory Panel website www.culture.gov.uk/CAP.
The panel is required to provide reports to the Secretary of State at key points as it develops its recommendations. The purpose of these reports is for the panel to keep the Secretary of State in touch with its progress, and to assure the Secretary of State that the work methods the panel is adopting will result in robust and legally sustainable recommendations.
The first two such progress reports have been published on the panel's website.