Casinos
Culture Media and Sport
Written answers and statements, 28 February 2007
Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what international examples were drawn on by the Casino Advisory Panel in the process of making their decision on proposed casino locations.
Richard Caborn (Minister of State (Sport), Department for Culture, Media & Sport; Sheffield Central, Labour)
The Casino Advisory Panel was asked to recommend areas in Britain which would provide the best possible test of the social impact of the new categories of casinos permitted by the Gambling Act 2005. Subject to that, the panel was also asked to recommend areas that would benefit most in terms of regeneration from a new casino, and which would be willing to license a new casino.
The panel commissioned a desk study of existing international research into the social and regeneration impact of casinos as background to its work.