Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of clinicians' recommendation that there should be a levy board responsible for a statutory gambling levy in the UK.

We are working with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to assess the effectiveness of existing funding arrangements to support projects and services related to problem gambling. This includes the appropriate governance structures to oversee this funding. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s white paper with proposals for reform is expected to be published shortly.