Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many crimes have been recorded under the Gambling Act 2005 in England and Wales in each of the last five years.

The Home Office collects information on the number of notifiable offences recorded by the police in England and Wales. The only Gambling Act 2005 offence that is notifiable is ‘cheating at gambling or enabling or assisting person to cheat’. In the tables published by the Office for National Statistics, this offence is included in the offence classification “other notifiable offences’. It is not possible to separate out the number of offences recorded under the Gambling Act by the police in England and Wales from within this wider offence classification.