Gaming Machines: Standards
Culture Media and Sport
Written answers and statements, 4 July 2007
Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what plans his Department has to permit the pre-testing of gaming machines prior to the implementation of the new machine categories provided for in the Gambling Act 2005.
Gerry Sutcliffe (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Culture, Media & Sport; Bradford South, Labour)
The power to test gaming machines for compliance with gaming machine technical standards rests with the Gambling Commission. Machines must be tested in line with the Commission's testing strategy, to be published before