Gambling: Early Mortality

Lord Mann Excerpts
Tuesday 20th April 2021

(3 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Mann Portrait Lord Mann (Non-Afl)
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The vast majority of people who follow horseracing and football have no gambling problems whatever. Addiction manifests itself in many different ways. Does the Minister agree that it is the role of the Department of Health and Social Care to get into the precise causation that creates addictive behaviour, in whatever form it manifests itself?

Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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The noble Lord is right. That is why the Department of Health and Social Care is leading on the addiction strategy and the addiction treatment strategy for the Government, and why the review of the Act seeks to strike the right balance between consumer freedom and preventing harm.