Examination of Witnesses

Part of Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:15 am on 12 November 2013.

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Roy Ramm: Absolutely. That’s a very fair suggestion, but I do think that it’s controlled by the number of machines in the premises and by the appetite of customers to play all kinds of games. The playing public will not necessarily totally gravitate towards a gaming device. You can look at what happened in Stratford when Aspers opened the first large casino in the UK. It was allowed 150 gaming machines, provided that it had 30 tables. It opened with those 30 tables. Very quickly, it has had to increase that to more than 50 tables. No matter what you put there, the gaming public will play what they want to play. No matter how hard we might push the online product—I absolutely see your point—I don’t think the gaming public are steerable in that way.