Sports: Betting
(asked on 15th October 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have undertaken the review recommended in the Parry Report of the Sports Betting Integrity Panel concerning the definition of cheating in the Gambling Act 2005; and whether they consider that the current legislative framework is capable fully to combat the threat to sport from betting-related corruption.
The Government reviewed Section 42 of the Gambling Act 2005 in the context of negotiations on the Council of Europe’s draft convention to combat the manipulation of sports competitions. The Government concluded that Section 42 as currently drafted, together with other fraud and corruption offences already on the statute book, gives prosecutors the tools required to deal with the circumstances that might constitute match fixing. |