Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Gambling-related harms evidence review: quantitative analysis, updated on 11 January 2023, what assessment she has made of the accuracy of the evidence used in that analysis.

In September 2019, Public Health England published the Gambling-related harms Evidence Review. No further assessment has been made of the quantitative analysis since its original publication. The Health Survey for England conducted in 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2018 was used as the primary dataset for this review and analysis was carried out on this four-year combined and weighted dataset. Information on methods for data collection is available at the following link:

http://healthsurvey.hscic.gov.uk/support-guidance/public-health/health-survey-for-england-2018/introduction.aspx

In January 2023, the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities published a review and update of the economic and social costs of harms analysis.