Online Gambling: Stake Limits - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 12:52 pm on 9 February 2021.

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Photo of Lord Berkeley of Knighton Lord Berkeley of Knighton Crossbench 12:52, 9 February 2021

My Lords, on the plus side, it is noticeable how advertising is now more strenuous in warning about the dangers of gambling. But specialists in addiction tell us that the mere act of suggestion—a bottle to an alcoholic, a syringe to a drug addict, and slot games or horses to gamblers—act as incentives to partake. So it is, as we have heard, the sheer frequency of advertising that is worrying. Does the Minister therefore feel that there is a genuine desire by the gambling industry to restrict the terrible damage that can affect whole families, given its obvious conflict of interests?