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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the cost of problem gambling to the Government.

In December 2016, the Institute for Public Policy Research published a report on the cost to Government associated with problem gamblers (commissioned by GambleAware). The Report can be found at: http://www.ippr.org/publications/cards-on-the-table