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Clive Efford Excerpts
Thursday 8th February 2018

(6 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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A huge amount of work is ongoing. We have managed, through the sugar tax, to double the amount of funding for school sport. I pay tribute to the Minister for Sport for all the work that she has done on this—she cannot be here today because she is flying to the Winter Olympics—and I am sure that she will be happy to work with my hon. Friend to see what more we can do.

Clive Efford Portrait Clive Efford (Eltham) (Lab)
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The gross yield of the gambling industry is £13 billion a year, yet GambleAware has been able to raise only £8.6 million through the voluntary levy. Come on, Minister—we have to do better than that.

Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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I will take that as another consideration in the gambling review, the response to which we are looking at right now.