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 the purpose was of the Casino Advisory Panel's commissioning of a research paper.
Richard Caborn (Minister of State (Sport), Department for Culture, Media & Sport; Sheffield Central, Labour)
The chair of the Casino Advisory Panel explained the purpose of the research in his foreword to the report on the Casino Advisory Panel's website. The intention was that the research work would provide background that would assist in the scoping phase of the Panel's work. While the report was not received in time for this, the report contributed to the background information available to the Panel, but as the Panel made clear they did not rely on it in reaching their conclusions.