Mentions:
1: Jessica Morden (LAB - Newport East) Members were right to say that individuals have been driven to the brink of suicide, marriages have collapsed - Speech Link
2: Justin Madders (LAB - Ellesmere Port and Neston) Individuals have been driven to the brink of suicide, marriages have collapsed, families have been torn - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Gambling must be better regulated. - Speech Link
4: Ronnie Cowan (SNP - Inverclyde) saved, almost everything I’ve ever had and has put quite simply left me on the verge of committing suicide - Speech Link
5: Nigel Huddleston (CON - Mid Worcestershire) to reduce gambling harms. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None coroner, following an inquest, to record an opinion as to the relevant factors in a case of death by suicide - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops) My Lords, in moving the Bill, I declare my interest in the register as a vice-president of Peers for Gambling - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Paul Blomfield (LAB - Sheffield Central) health of people who had previously been just managing but could not see how that could continue; about suicide - Speech Link
2: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) Companies such as BP and Shell are gambling on Ministers failing to rein in their deadly plans for more - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) My Lords, without speculating on our ongoing review, gambling duties are based on gross gambling yield - Speech Link
2: Lord Foster of Bath (LDEM - Life peer) Reducing gambling harm would reduce NHS costs and, with spending displaced from gambling to more labour-intensive - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) continue their problem gambling in that area. - Speech Link
4: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) It also emphasised suicide, mental health and all the other factors that come into play. - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) The noble Lord is right to point to the individual levels at which harms can be committed: one suicide - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Merron (LAB - Life peer) The shift to online gambling, the increased cost of living and the continued financial impact of the - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Gloucester (Bishops - Bishops) and I hope that will be considered in the online safety Bill as well as regulation of those horrific suicide - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Of course it is proportionate for the law to tackle protecting children from pornography, those vile suicide - Speech Link
4: Lord Foster of Bath (LDEM - Life peer) ; I declare my interest as the chairman of Peers for Gambling Reform. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Grade of Yarmouth (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Given the gambling-related suicide rates, that cannot be acceptable.If, in replying to this debate, the - Speech Link
2: Lord Layard (LAB - Life peer) As the chairman said, roughly one gambler a day dies through suicide. - Speech Link
3: Lord Butler of Brockwell (CB - Life peer) , alcohol dependency and, most seriously, suicide. - Speech Link
4: Lord Foster of Bath (LDEM - Life peer) family members of those who have committed suicide because of gambling, anyone can become addicted. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (LAB - Life peer) It is part of his attritional campaign for, often, young men who commit suicide because of gambling habits - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops) It is partly because the ubiquitous gambling adverts are now spreading into women’s magazines and so - Speech Link
3: None The purpose of this amendment is to allow factors relevant in a death by suicide to be recorded in a - Speech Link
4: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (CON - Life peer) We are committed to understanding the circumstances which lead to self-harm and suicide, including gambling - Speech Link
5: None Act 2005 (offence of cheating at gambling)—(a) in subsection (4)(b), for “51 weeks” substitute “the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jamie Stone (LDEM - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) They committed suicide and it was discovered afterwards that they were a gambling addict.The point I - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (CON - Chingford and Woodford Green) It has led, as we know, to embarrassment, shame and eventual suicide—although in some cases people are - Speech Link
3: Gerald Jones (LAB - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) On average, a problem gambler commits suicide every day. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) A Swedish study found that the suicide rate for those with a gambling disorder was 15 times that of the - Speech Link
5: Jeff Smith (LAB - Manchester, Withington) Meanwhile, someone with gambling-related problems dies by suicide every day. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops) Suicide is a terrible thing and the best way to tackle it is to identify the underlying causes and put - Speech Link
2: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (CON - Life peer) factors in a conclusion of death by suicide. - Speech Link
3: None included a refreshed suicide prevention work plan. - Speech Link
4: None to develop suicide bereavement services in every part of the country. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) Friend knows, the review of the Gambling Act 2005 is under way and will conclude imminently. - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) The Minister is well aware of the costs of delaying action to tackle problem gambling. - Speech Link
3: Clive Efford (LAB - Eltham) , but it predates online gambling by a very long way, and it is therefore essential that we update gambling - Speech Link
4: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) Member for Sheffield Central (Paul Blomfield), we discussed the tragic suicide of Jack Ritchie as a result - Speech Link
5: Ronnie Cowan (SNP - Inverclyde) and research required to address gambling-related harm. - Speech Link