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Westminster Hall
Cryptocurrency Regulation - Tue 13 Jun 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lisa Cameron (SNP - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) regulatory framework in financial services enables the Exchequer to collect taxes, as opposed to using the gambling - Speech Link
2: Andrew Griffith (CON - Arundel and South Downs) to try to move things forward.Fellow parliamentarians have suggested that cryptoassets are akin to gambling - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Cryptoasset Promotions in Sport - Tue 08 Nov 2022
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Aaron Bell (CON - Newcastle-under-Lyme) They were led into believing in something that was regulated in that case, through the Gambling Commission - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Sports as an industry has realised the potential that cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies can - Speech Link
3: Jeff Smith (LAB - Manchester, Withington) Labour is not advocating a ban on the ownership of cryptocurrencies. - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (CON - Pudsey) Our independent review into the regulation of Football Index identified lessons to be learned by the Gambling - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 25 Oct 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) banks and the financial sector, but we have not talked much about cryptocurrency or other areas such as gambling - Speech Link
2: Jackie Doyle-Price (CON - Thurrock) Effectively, a lot of the technology that sits behind cryptocurrencies is based within what is described - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial Services and Markets Bill
2nd reading - Wed 07 Sep 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) We should legislate to prevent company directors from gambling recklessly with money that belongs to - Speech Link
2: Abena Oppong-Asare (LAB - Erith and Thamesmead) How did the recent collapse in the value of cryptocurrencies inform the Treasury’s approach to clauses - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crypto Currencies - Mon 28 Feb 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (CON - Life peer) technology has much to commend it, with the UK being a world leader in financial technology, should not cryptocurrencies - Speech Link
2: Lord Lee of Trafford (LDEM - Life peer) My Lords, given the worrying numbers of young people ignorantly speculating in cryptocurrencies, is there - Speech Link
3: Baroness Altmann (CON - Life peer) My Lords, will my noble friend help the House understand the advantages of cryptocurrencies? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial Services: UK Economy - Thu 09 Dec 2021
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Anthony Browne (CON - South Cambridgeshire) As cryptocurrencies grow, it is inevitable that they will need some form of regulation to protect consumers - Speech Link
2: Angela Eagle (LAB - Wallasey) to be doing to deal with that, and whether the wild west of Bitcoin and the rest should be left as a gambling - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Net-Zero Carbon Emissions - Wed 21 Apr 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Baroness Altmann (CON - Life peer) encourage fraudulent trading and facilitate money laundering, as well as enticing people into speculative gambling - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) Baroness, Lady Altmann, raised the interesting issue of the Government’s plans for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Financial Services Bill
Committee stage - Wed 03 Mar 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sikka (LAB - Life peer) These include the Financial Conduct Authority, HMRC, the Gambling Commission and 22 other bodies, mainly - Speech Link
2: None makes the Government think that the practices of the other three AML supervisors—HMRC, the FCA and the Gambling - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops) would mandate the providers of deposit or credit accounts to provide voluntary debit card and credit gambling - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kramer (LDEM - Life peer) We must tackle this issue, which will only get worse as we move into the era of cryptocurrencies and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Digital Economy Bill - Tue 13 Sep 2016
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Claire Perry (CON - Devizes) Of course, the gambling industry set up very early on robust age verification mechanisms that blocked - Speech Link
2: Kelvin Hopkins (IND - Luton North) I have expressed serious concerns about compulsive-addictive gambling, which is exacerbated by online - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) There may be a need for this sort of power if websites start trading in so-called cryptocurrencies which - Speech Link