Asked by: Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have been prosecuted for supplying illegal, unregulated, or black market gambling services in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
The number of prosecutions for offences relating to the supply of illegal, unregulated or black market gambling services are provided in the attached table and published in the ‘Principal offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code data tool’, available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/987731/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2020.xlsx
The specific offences selected are listed below:
Asked by: Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many deaths related to gambling harm were recorded in Great Britain in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lord Wolfson of Tredegar
The Ministry of Justice publishes annual coroner statistics which include all short form and narrative conclusions such as accident or misadventure, open and suicide.
However, the statistics do not include the motivating factor behind the deaths as it is beyond the coroner’s jurisdiction to determine why someone died. The coroner’s statutory role is limited to determining the identity of the deceased; how, when and where they died; and any information needed to register the death.