Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the report prepared by KPMG on behalf of the Association of British Bookmakers which was submitted to his Department as part of its consultations on the reduction in maximum stakes on fixed odds betting terminals and increasing remote gaming duty.

The report was commissioned by the Association of British Bookmakers and was provided in confidence to HM Treasury due to its commercial sensitivity.

It is imperative that stakeholders can provide information in confidence for the government to critically analyse to ensure policy making can be evidence-based.

Releasing the report and breaching that confidence would discourage stakeholders from engaging with government and harm future policy-making.