Mentions:
1: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) Sadly, not all football clubs can be relied on to do the right thing, even though we know that a sponsorship - Speech Link
2: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) Let us end advertising and sponsorship in sport without delay. - Speech Link
3: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) so football does not need that money. - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) Gambling sponsorship also represents a significant source of income for sports other than football, with - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gill Furniss (Lab - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) to call for an end to gambling advertising and sponsorship in football. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) In sport, the absence of government action has led 35 football clubs to decide to go it alone and join - Speech Link
2: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) If you ever go to a football match, as I do, you cannot escape the gambling adverts and the involvement - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) in the past when our favourite football teams ran about the park with cigarettes advertised on their - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) We are clearly now in the position whereby if anyone suggested that football teams should have tobacco - Speech Link
3: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) I do not know about anybody else’s children, but mine watch football on the television, and they can - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) For example, the Swiss Football Association has just cut its support for women’s football from £13.5 - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) It has spent at least $6.3 billion on sportswashing since 2021—that is 300 sponsorship deals. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hayward (Con - Life peer) In conclusion, I really think that everybody should look at sponsorship. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) I had not included any points in my comments about sponsorship, as noble Lords will hear, but that was - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Foster of Bath (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to their policy paper High Stakes: Gambling Reform for the Digital Age, published on 27 April, when they will publish the cross-sport Code of Conduct outlined in that paper; and whether they will include an implementation timeline.
Answered by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
All domestic sports governing bodies have agreed to four core principles underpinning the cross-sport Code of Conduct on gambling sponsorship: (i) protecting children and young people; (ii) socially responsible promotion; (iii) reinvestment in sport; and (iv) maintaining sporting integrity. These principles put in place a robust minimum standard for sponsorship across all sports. Through the code, a proportion of in-stadium advertising will be dedicated to safer gambling, and replica kits for adults will be made available without gambling logos, alongside the existing requirements for children’s replica kits.
We want sports governing bodies to have sufficient flexibility to implement these principles in a way which maximises impact for the sports and their fans. Bespoke, sport-specific codes are currently being designed by individual governing bodies, and will be published and implemented in due course. The Premier League and English Football League plan to have their codes in place by next season. DCMS will continue to work closely with sports bodies to ensure that implementation and enforcement processes are robust.
Asked by: Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative - Chingford and Woodford Green)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the cross-sport Code of Conduct is (a) robust and (b) workable in practice; and what lessons she has learnt from the application of CAP code 2.1 for regulation of breaches of the Code.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
All domestic sports governing bodies have agreed to four core principles underpinning the cross-sport Code of Conduct on gambling sponsorship: (i) protecting children and young people (ii) socially responsible promotion (iii) reinvestment into sport (iv) maintaining sporting integrity. These principles put in place a robust minimum standard for sponsorship across all sports. Through the code, a proportion of in-stadia advertising will be dedicated to safer gambling messaging, and replica kits for adults will be made available without gambling logos, alongside the existing requirements for childrens’ replica kits.
Sports governing bodies must have sufficient flexibility to implement these principles in a way which maximises impact for the sports and their fans. Bespoke, sport-specific Codes are currently being designed by individual sports governing bodies, and will be implemented in due course. The Premier League and English Football League plan to have their Codes in place by next season. DCMS will continue to work closely with sports on their implementation and enforcement practices.
As a licence condition, gambling operators must comply with the restrictions set out in the Advertising Codes, which includes robust rules under section 2 regulating the recognition of marketing communications. Under these rules, marketing communications must be obviously identifiable as such and make clear their commercial intent, if that is not obvious from the context. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) can and does take action against breaches, and a recent ruling can be found here. Operators are liable to enforcement action from the Gambling Commission if affiliates which they pay to carry out marketing activities do not comply with the rules.
Correspondence Dec. 12 2023
Committee: Culture, Media and Sport Committee (Department: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport)Found: Sponsorship Secondly, b etting advertising , marketing and sponsorship has to comply with strict
Ban gambling adverts and sponsorship in football
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I want the Government to prevent gambling being advertised in football, or being a sponsor of football clubs, to protect children from this.
Found: Many children watch football, meaning they can see gambling adverts.
Correspondence Nov. 08 2023
Committee: Women and Equalities CommitteeFound: Correspondence from Sports Direct, relating to football boots HC 130 Correspondence