Response to the Review of the Gambling Act 2005 – Lord Foster of Bath.
Andy Allen: ...task force in that regard. I welcome clause 3 on monitoring and reporting. It is important that we always assess, monitor, report and evaluate legislation, whether on mitigations, licensing laws or gambling. Whatever the legislation may be, we should always assess and try to improve it. Given that the end date has been included in the Bill, I sincerely hope that, after 5 May, we are not in...
Alex Davies-Jones: ...the fault of mismanagement by owners. It is an example of the problem that the hon. Member for Chatham and Aylesford (Tracey Crouch) identified in the fan-led review of football governance: owners gambling everything on aiming for Premier League status without proper safeguards in place, leaving the club in danger. It is further evidence that football governance is broken and that we...
Ruth Cadbury: To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits for gambling regulation of requiring the Gambling Commission to assess the novelty of an (a) operator or (b) product when conducting scrutiny.
Andrew Bridgen: ...for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether (a) she, (b) Ministers or (c) officials in her Department have met with representatives of the Horseracing Bettors Forum to discuss the forthcoming Gambling white paper.
Ruth Cadbury: To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department first received correspondence from the Gambling Commission on its investigation into Football Index.
Chris Philp: The Gambling Commission is responsible for running the competition for and awarding the next licence to run the National Lottery. DCMS has worked with the Commission on the design of the licence, but is not involved with the competition process or selection of the winning bidder. Under the National Lottery etc Act 1993, the government shares three statutory duties with the Gambling...
Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to require schools to provide education on the harms of gambling.
Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she plans to take to prevent gambling companies from targeting vulnerable communities.
Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will bring forward legislative proposals as part of the Online Harms Bill to tackle online gambling firms making offers to their site users that are harmful, including free loans.
Kevin Brennan: To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a statutory timeframe for the review of the Gambling Commission’s licence fees.
Alex Davies-Jones: ...Bill makes some progress and Labour supports the need for consultation, we urge the scheme to go further. With the right safeguards in place to find the owners of assets, unclaimed winnings from gambling, pension assets and physical assets could be considered in the future too. Labour supports the measures to ensure that all efforts are made to identify asset owners before moving on to the...
Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to produce a gambling addiction strategy alongside the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport's gambling strategy.
Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding he will make available for gambling addiction services.
James Wild: ...of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make it her policy to introduce an individual right of redress for consumers who suffer harm under social responsibility obligations on gambling operators.
Andy Carter: ...to enter administration. Can we have a debate in Government time on how councils are using public money to invest in private companies? I again urge the Government to launch an inquiry into this gambling by local councillors.
Chris Philp: The Gambling Commission has revoked the licence of Football Index’s operator, BetIndex. It has also referred it to the Insolvency Service to consider whether directors breached fraud or insolvency laws. The Insolvency Service investigates allegations of Directors misconduct and they can conduct criminal investigations against those suspected of committing criminal offences. Senior members...
Gambling Act 2005: Review
Ruth Cadbury: ...of the Football Index by the Secretary of State’s Department are thin gruel for my constituents who lost thousands through that scam. What are the Government doing to ensure that both the Gambling Commission and the Financial Conduct Authority are fit for purpose, and that my constituents get the justice that they deserve after the collapse of that scam, the Football Index?
Angela Eagle: With this it will be convenient to discuss new clause 11—Gambling— “The Government must publish within 12 months of this Act coming into effect an assessment of the provisions of clause 80 on— (a) the volume of gambling, and (b) public health.”