Gambling: Rehabilitation
(asked on 30th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the estimated cost to the NHS of treating gambling addictions in each of the 5 years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 5th December 2022
NHS England has funded specialist gambling treatment clinics since 2019. Expenditure on the specialist clinics was £1 million in 2019/20, £1 million in 2020/21, £3 million in 2021/22 and is projected at £4 million in 2022/23.