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Clive Efford
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(6 years, 9 months ago)
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Matt Hancock
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 (Eltham) (Lab)
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
I will take that as another consideration in the gambling review, the response to which we are looking at right now.