Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the level of financial losses experienced by gamblers on fixed-odds betting terminals by NRS social grade; and if he will make a statement.
Neither we or the Gambling Commission have made an assessment, or are aware of such an assessment into this issue. However, research published by GambleAware in April 2016 provides analysis of financial losses on B2 and B3 gaming machines by socio-demographic characteristics. The research involved a sample of gaming machine players who held account cards which represents around 10% of gaming machine players, and should not be considered representative of all players. The research can be found here: https://about.gambleaware.org/media/1259/natcen-secondary-analysis-of-loyalty-card-survey-final.pdf