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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of lobbying by the gambling industry on MPs ahead of the publication of the Gambling Review.

Our Review of the Gambling Act 2005 is broad in scope and has attracted interest from a wide range of stakeholders, including industry, campaign groups and parliamentarians. Stakeholders from across the debate have provided evidence and views to inform the Review process, with c.16,000 responses submitted to our call for evidence, which we have been considering carefully. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has not collated the declarations of interest by parliamentarians relating to gambling firms.