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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what reasons or independent research underpin the present £100 limit on betting on fixed-odds betting terminals.

In setting stakes and prizes limits the Government takes into account advice from the Gambling Commission – as the Government’s statutory advisor on gambling regulation – as well as available research and other evidence. The last review of stakes and prizes took place in 2013.

We are working with the Gambling Commission and industry to ensure that the new measures brought in earlier this year – including restrictions for the maximum unsupervised stake on B2 gaming machines (known as ‘fixed-odds betting terminals’) – are effectively evaluated. If need be we will take action if these controls are found to be insufficient.