Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many young people in Lancashire have received treatment for gambling addiction since January 2017.
There are no plans to expand National Health Service-funded services to treat gambling addiction. There are a range of services available to problem gamblers, details of which can be found on the NHS Choices website at the following:
www.nhs.uk/Livewell/addiction/Pages/gamblingaddiction.aspx
Data on the number of young people in Lancashire receiving treatment for gambling addiction are not held centrally.