Gambling: Children
(asked on 1st March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the effect of permitting children to gamble in family entertainment centres on future gambling habits.
This question was answered on 8th March 2017
Available evidence is inconclusive as to the long-term effect on children playing category D machines in Family Entertainment Centres. However the Government takes the issue of children gambling very seriously and continues to keep the matter under review.