Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to expand NHS services based outside London to treat gambling addiction.
There are no plans to expand National Health Service-funded services to treat gambling addiction. There are a range of services available to problem gamblers, details of which can be found on the NHS Choices website at the following:
www.nhs.uk/Livewell/addiction/Pages/gamblingaddiction.aspx
Data on the number of young people in Lancashire receiving treatment for gambling addiction are not held centrally.