Gambling: Regulation

(asked on 3rd December 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will facilitate discussions between the gambling industry and financial services institutions to ensure gambling operators provide data to prevent harm.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 13th December 2021

The Government recognises the important role banks and other financial services can play in supporting efforts to tackle gambling related harm. Since 2019, when the then Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Jeremy Wright, convened a roundtable of banks and other stakeholders in the financial sector to encourage them to do more in this regard many banks have acted to offer their customers the option to block card transactions and we estimate this is now available for approximately 90% of UK current accounts.

The Economic Secretary to the Treasury and I will shortly co-convene a roundtable with the financial services industry to explore further steps the sector could take.

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