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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people who are addicted to gambling.

As set out in Public Health England’s evidence review of gambling-related harms, the problem gambling rate for England was estimated as 0.4% in 2021, and has been relatively stable since 2012. However it should be noted that Covid impacted data collection for the latest Health Survey meaning comparisons between 2021 findings and those from earlier surveys cannot be made.