Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley South)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the impact of gambling-related (a) fraud and (b) other acquisitive crimes on the finances of the victims of those crimes.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Shadow Minister (Home Office) (Security)
The Home Office do not make assessments specifically on the impact of gambling-related (a) fraud and (b) other acquisitive crimes on the finances of the victims of those crimes.
The Treasury and Home Office hold joint responsibility for publishing a periodic National Risk Assessment which sets out the money laundering and terrorist financing risks in the UK. This includes an assessment of the Gambling sector. The latest risk assessment was published in 2020 National risk assessment of money laundering and terrorist financing 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The Gambling Commission also conduct money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessments on the British gambling industry. The latest risk assessment can be found here: The 2023 money laundering and terrorist financing risks within the British gambling industry - National Strategic Assessment 2020 - Executive summary (gamblingcommission.gov.uk)
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Found: of the passing of this Act, lay before Parliament a review of victims of fraud, bribery and money
Mentions:
1: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) I am not a gambling man. It is an interesting term. - Speech Link
2: None I am supportive of tackling fraud—whether tax, money laundering, Covid, electoral or benefit—but the - Speech Link
3: None from the public purse, as well as all those organisations and individuals that prevent money flowing - Speech Link
4: None No powers have been taken to follow the money. - Speech Link
Found: of the passing of this Act, lay before Parliament a review of victims of fraud, bribery and money
Found: • the flow of money through the ‘football pyramid’.