Gaming Machines and Social Responsibility
Debate between Peter Bone and Tracey Crouch(7 years ago)
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Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough) (Con)
Thank you, Mr Speaker, for calling another Spurs fan immediately. Your neutrality in the Chair, of course, would not prevent you from intervening. This excellent Minister is bringing forward a really sensible consultation. What worries me is that if we make the wrong decision, we may make the situation worse by driving problem gamblers out of betting shops, which are a controlled environment, and towards online gambling. The consultation is right, but we should look at that issue as part of it.
Tracey Crouch
Online gambling has, in many respects, a better opportunity to protect players, because sites have all the details of players’ practices. Obviously, as part of the consultation, we are going to look at how we can protect online gamblers, but we definitely have more opportunity to do that than we do to protect somebody going in and out of different bookmakers.
Oral Answers to Questions
Debate between Peter Bone and Tracey Crouch(9 years, 1 month ago)
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Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough) (Con)
Does the Minister welcome the National Football League establishing three international games at Wembley this year, and would she welcome a franchise based in London?
Tracey Crouch
As a fan of American football—the Green Bay Packers are doing incredibly well at the moment in the NFL—I welcome more American football, and I look forward to seeing more games here in London.