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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what reports his Department received of concerns brought to the Gambling Commission in January 2020 on Football Index.

In May 2020 the Gambling Commission began a formal Review into BetIndex Ltd, the operator of Football Index, after concerns about the operator had been raised. The focus of its review was to address issues in relation to the betting aspect of the product. At that stage the Commission considered there were no grounds to suspend its operating licence and it did not consider there were sufficient grounds to make a report to DCMS. Further information can be found on the Commission’s website:

https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/news-action-and-statistics/news/2021/BetIndex-update.aspx