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Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 21 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Nash (Con - Life peer) So-called com groups are using social media to trap vulnerable children in games such as cutting games - Speech Link
2: None could end my life by inhaling helium, I watched two videos of girls being choked and I accessed a video - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) There is a new generation of autodidacts who are teaching themselves coding, video producing, editing - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Gambling Harms: Children and Young People - Thu 15 Jan 2026
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Alex Ballinger (Lab - Halesowen) Games are designed with the same psychological elements that we might see in gambling, as they target - Speech Link
2: Paulette Hamilton (Lab - Birmingham Erdington) , including loot-box mechanics—which I knew nothing about—in video games aimed at children. - Speech Link
3: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) It includes traditional gambling sites and games with loot boxes, which encourage gambling-type behaviour - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
High Street Gambling Reform - Thu 08 Jan 2026
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Dawn Butler (Lab - Brent East) The gambling industry says that gambling shops help high streets, but they do not. - Speech Link
2: Dawn Butler (Lab - Brent East) Jack had a gambling addiction. - Speech Link
3: Dawn Butler (Lab - Brent East) The same addictive hooks are being used to get young people addicted to the games and gambling—and it - Speech Link
4: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) Currently, gambling debates often centre around online gambling, which is clearly a growing menace, and - Speech Link
5: Ben Coleman (Lab - Chelsea and Fulham) Gambling becomes normalised. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) Magnitsky-style sanctions for serious human rights abuses, followed by debate on a motion on high street gambling - Speech Link
2: Tracy Gilbert (Lab - Edinburgh North and Leith) in The Scotsman that suggest that Rockstar claimed more than £70 million in tax relief through the video - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 02 Dec 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) It is paid for by cracking down on tax avoidance and evasion, and a tax on online gambling. - Speech Link
2: Adam Dance (LD - Yeovil) There were some welcome but long overdue measures, such as those that make online gambling companies - Speech Link
3: Warinder Juss (Lab - Wolverhampton West) Lifting the two-child benefit cap, paid for by a tax on gambling companies, will lift 450,000 children - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Gambling: Regulatory Reform - Tue 02 Dec 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Charlie Maynard (LD - Witney) Recent Gambling Commission figures also show that the harms caused by gambling are increasingly being - Speech Link
2: Charlie Maynard (LD - Witney) Football matches are saturated by gambling ads; there were thousands of gambling messages during the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Suicide: Reducing the Stigma - Wed 19 Nov 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) We must acknowledge the link between gambling addiction, poverty and suicide.The statutory levy imposed - Speech Link
2: Chris Vince (LAB - Harlow) He was one of the many people I used to talk to at Harlow Town football games. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) Members mentioned gambling and drug addiction. The hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 18 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) I am not talking even about games. - Speech Link
2: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) ensuring progressive development from foundational movement skills in key stage 1 to more complex games - Speech Link
3: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) two lessons of PE a week timetabled, and PE covered a whole range of activities, from gym work to games - Speech Link
4: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) be no satisfactory way to hold Microsoft to account for this.A second example is Vimeo, a popular video - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Football Governance Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Tue 08 Jul 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Max Wilkinson (LD - Cheltenham) They will be watching clips of people playing games on computers as well. - Speech Link
2: Max Wilkinson (LD - Cheltenham) Gambling-related harm is widespread and deeply damaging. - Speech Link
3: Max Wilkinson (LD - Cheltenham) We are not calling for a ban on gambling, but on gambling advertising in football. - Speech Link
4: Bobby Dean (LD - Carshalton and Wallington) Let us not kid ourselves: we are talking about 10 games out of 760 available—that would be 1% of games - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Mon 23 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Lab - Life peer) content that is misleading, upsetting and disturbing, as any of us can now create images, audio and video - Speech Link
2: Baroness Meyer (Con - Life peer) When we see parents pushing a pushchair and children looking at video games and such things, it is probably - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jenkin of Kennington (Con - Life peer) Only last week, a study revealed that half of these young individuals exhibit a high trajectory of video - Speech Link
4: None Not only can people be groomed on social media, but some of the games that are played on social media - Speech Link