Clause 4 - Remote gambling

Part of Gambling Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:30 pm on 9 November 2004.

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Photo of Richard Caborn Richard Caborn Minister of State (Sport and Tourism), Department for Culture, Media & Sport 4:30, 9 November 2004

We can have discussion and debate, but I do not accept the premise of the argument. Ofcom does not regulate everything that goes on to the internet. We are talking about the act of gambling, and that is why we are setting up a new regulation for gambling, in whatever form that takes: whether it is through the internet, in a betting shop, in bingo halls or through the lottery—the whole lot. We are licensing the act of gambling. As for the fact that it takes place through the internet, then fine, we have not been able to control that under the old regulations and laws. We will be able to do that under the Bill. That is what Budd had to consider and it is why we set up the Budd review.