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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 29 Mar 2022
Gambling-related Harm

"It absolutely is true. I was sat here beside you and watched you read it...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 29 Mar 2022
Gambling-related Harm

"As I said, a briefing from Bet365—that is exactly what it was...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 29 Mar 2022
Gambling-related Harm

"It does not matter who it was written for; it is a briefing from Bet365...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 29 Mar 2022
Gambling-related Harm

"We will cover that in a minute; we are wasting time.

It is simply not true that 66% of Norwegian gambling is on the black market. I am not trying to replicate Norway. In Norway, gambling is state monopolised, and because of that they use the internet a lot to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"T2.   The gambling industry currently makes a voluntary contribution to the cost of the education, health support and research required to address gambling-related harm. The then Secretary of State, the right hon. and learned Member for Kenilworth and Southam (Jeremy Wright), said in 2019 that“the Government reserve the right to …..."
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Written Question
Gambling: Taxation
Thursday 24th March 2022

Asked by: Ronnie Cowan (Scottish National Party - Inverclyde)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

If she will make it her policy to introduce a statutory levy on gambling operators to fund services relating to gambling harms.

Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary

The Government’s Review of the Gambling Act called for evidence on how best to recoup the regulatory and societal costs of problem gambling. We will publish a white paper in the coming weeks.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Mar 2022
Jack Ritchie: Gambling Act Review

"The coroner also said that the services available to Jack were “woeful”. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that until we ringfence a statutory levy that can properly fund, through the NHS, the help, support and education that is required, the services will continue to be woeful and more young men …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Mar 2022
Jack Ritchie: Gambling Act Review

"I welcome all those measures, but the Government have brought every single one of them to the table kicking and screaming. They have all been from pressure groups outside looking in and saying, “You must change this.” What I want to see is the Government leading by example, particularly when …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Mar 2022
Jack Ritchie: Gambling Act Review

"The Minister is correct to point out that 888 was fined £9.4 million for its tardiness, but the point behind this is that the operators decide what rules they implement, because they are governed by their own body, the Gambling Commission, which they fund. 888 is a gambling firm—a bookmaker. …..."
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Written Question
Gambling Act 2005
Friday 11th February 2022

Asked by: Ronnie Cowan (Scottish National Party - Inverclyde)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department plans to publish a White Paper on the reform of the Gambling Act 2005.

Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary

The Gambling Act Review is a priority for the department. We will publish a White Paper with our conclusions in the coming months.