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Lords Chamber
Gambling Advertising - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) bombarded by gambling ads and images online”:“Young people feel their internet activity is overwhelmed by betting - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) As well as gambling and betting products it covers short-term loans, alcoholic drinks, fossil-fuel products - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) The industry’s “whistle-to-whistle” ban has cut the number of pre-9pm betting adverts to around a quarter - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) have been strengthened to prohibit content that downplays the risk or overstates the skill involved in betting - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Football Index Collapse: Lessons Learned - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) replicates the problems of Football Index, so we need to learn the lessons.The collapse of the supposed betting - Speech Link
2: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) Its website says that KiX is beginning with football but may expand into other sports if successful. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) important.Some 67% of people in Northern Ireland have been said to gamble, and they cover a range of ages, sports - Speech Link
4: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Indeed, the only hint on Football Index’s website that it was a betting site was an easy-to-miss strapline - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sport: Gambling Advertising - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Ronnie Cowan (SNP - Inverclyde) , most sports do not actually benefit from gambling. - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) I am not against people betting if they want to bet and gamble—they can do that. - Speech Link
3: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) ads flood our sports—football in particular.Others have pointed out the estimate that 3,500 betting - Speech Link
4: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) gambling harm in both sportspeople and sports fans. - Speech Link
5: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) betting adverts seen by children to just 0.3 per week. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Financial Risk Checks for Gambling - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Laurence Robertson (Con - Tewkesbury) I am not fully aware of how other sports are funded, so I will have to ask the hon. - Speech Link
2: Conor McGinn (Ind - St Helens North) Like all sports, racing is facing difficult economic headwinds, but the decision to hurt betting revenue - Speech Link
3: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) It may be an anachronism; one could argue that other sports should get the benefit, but we are where - Speech Link
4: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) We now win in so many different sports, and that is the direct result of the lottery. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Horserace Betting Levy Board and Horse Welfare - Wed 06 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) Indeed, this House passed the Betting Levy Act 1961, establishing the Horserace Betting Levy Board, which - Speech Link
2: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) The horserace betting levy has evolved in step with the betting industry since it was introduced in the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 16 Nov 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) We have commenced the review of the horserace betting levy, to commit to a sustainable future for racing - Speech Link
2: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) We absolutely recognise the relationship between betting and racing, and have no intention of over-regulating - Speech Link
3: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) Following the 2012 Olympics, sports participation did not increase. - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) I welcome the fact that there are these new sports, including flag football; I know that my hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Mon 13 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sheehan (LD - Life peer) Government are referring to carbon capture and storage and small modular nuclear reactors then they are betting - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) As I, the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, and others know—I worked with the mayor as the unpaid sports commissioner—behind - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Future of Horseracing - Wed 25 Oct 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Matt Hancock (Ind - West Suffolk) Modern technology has improved British horseracing enormously, but ultimately it is the most ancient of sports - Speech Link
2: Matt Hancock (Ind - West Suffolk) Horserace betting is a joy and a pleasure for millions. - Speech Link
3: Matt Hancock (Ind - West Suffolk) The websites to which people are being driven do nothing to promote safer gambling, do not support sports - Speech Link
4: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland) More than 50% said they would stop betting or significantly reduce their betting because of these personally - Speech Link
5: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) For many, that change will start with the horserace betting levy.Currently, the horserace betting levy - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Horseracing and Bloodstock Industries - Thu 14 Sep 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Harding of Winscombe (CON - Life peer) I try to explain to my friends who are not keen racing fans but love other sports like this: imagine - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) To an extent, they do not—but all sports do this. - Speech Link
3: Lord Harlech (CON - Excepted Hereditary) The horserace betting levy has evolved in step with the betting industry since it was introduced in the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 12 Jul 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Mark Menzies (CON - Fylde) Data also shows that women are less likely to participate in sports betting; instead, they are more active - Speech Link
2: Craig Mackinlay (CON - South Thanet) constituency are concerned that this will also apply to them, as well as to out-of-hours tuition and sports - Speech Link