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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the proportions of problem gambling disorders that result from gambling (a) in person and (b) online.

The Health Survey for England 2018 showed that the problem gambling rate for Yorkshire and the Humber was 0.5% and 0.7% for the North East. The rate for England was 0.5%.

According to the 2016 Combined Health Surveys, the overall rate of problem gambling for adults in Great Britain was 0.6%. Among those who had engaged in any gambling activity the rate was 1.2% and for those who gambled online the rate was 3.5%. The surveys do not show causation but the proportion of those taking part in an activity who are considered problem gamblers.