Mentions:
1: Gibson, Kenneth (SNP - Cunninghame North) sponsors, resulted in 716 gambling exposures over the course of the game.As members of the Scottish - Speech Link
2: Balfour, Jeremy (Con - Lothian) Commission and academia as low risk and quite distinct from the commercial gambling sector. - Speech Link
3: Allan, Alasdair (SNP - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) The lotteries therefore pose a very low risk of gambling-related harm to players. - Speech Link
4: Callaghan, Stephanie (SNP - Uddingston and Bellshill) as homelessness, crime, fractured relationships and mental health problems; it even contributes to suicide - Speech Link
5: Roddick, Emma (SNP - Highlands and Islands) than the potentially harmful forms of gambling that are not subject to the same limit. - Speech Link
Feb. 23 2024
Source Page: New £2 maximum stake for under 25s playing online slotsFound: The evidence also points to a stronger link between gambling related harm and suicide among young adults
Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 April 2024 to Question 20454 on Mental Health Services: Stockport, how the £4.7 billion of increased funding for mental health has been spent; and how much and what proportion of that funding has been spent by (a) local authority and (b) constituency area.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Whilst a definitive answer is not possible, most of this additional funding was allocated to local health systems to be spent on expanding and transforming mental health services across the country. This is evidenced by:
- an increase in the number of adults accessing NHS Talking Therapies, with nearly 6 million people being supported over this five year period; an increase in the number of children and young people accessing mental health support, with over 750,000 children and young people under 18 years old supported through National Health Service funded mental health services, those with at least one contact, over the 12 months to January 2024;
- the roll out of approximately 400 mental health support teams in schools and colleges; the transformation of community mental health services for adults with approximately 288,000 adults and older adults with severe mental illness able to access improved physical health care, employment support, personalised and trauma informed care, medicines management and support for self-harm, and coexisting substance use over 2022/23, the latest full financial year for which figures are available;
- the establishment of around the clock and all-age urgent mental health helplines in every part of England;
- the investment of £30 million to meet the health needs of people sleeping rough, allowing for the establishment of 37 sites with new mental health provision for rough sleepers;
- the opening, or planned opening, of 15 specialist gambling treatment clinics, achieving representation across every region of England and including specialist provision for children and young people;
- the provision of £57 million of funding up to the end of March 2024, to embed local suicide and self-harm prevention activity, and to provide suicide bereavement support services in every local area.
Mentions:
1: None coroner, following an inquest, to record an opinion as to the relevant factors in a case of death by suicide - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bshp - Bishops) My Lords, I declare my interest as a vice-president of Peers for Gambling Reform. - Speech Link
Correspondence Oct. 18 2023
Committee: Culture, Media and Sport Committee (Department: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport)Found: Letter from Charles Ritchie MBE, Co-founder and Co-Chair, Gambling with Lives, relating to Gambling oral
Written Evidence Nov. 29 2023
Inquiry: Men's healthFound: .A Red Ladder Theatre community play addressing suicide.
Asked by: Stewart, Kevin (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen Central)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has undertaken to gauge any impact that gambling has on (a) poverty, (b) mental health, (c) suicide, (d) homelessness, (e) domestic violence and (f) addiction.
Answered by Minto, Jenni - Minister for Public Health and Women's Health
The most recent Scottish Health Survey (SHeS) found that the proportion of adults undertaking any gambling activities in Scotland (including the National Lottery) has decreased significantly between 2012 and 2021 – from 70% to 58%.
However, notwithstanding this positive trajectory, the Scottish Government recognises the adverse impacts that gambling can have on health and wellbeing, such as debt and deterioration of physical and mental health, and that this can lead to an increased risk of suicide for people affected by problem gambling. A recent evidence review by Public Health England (updated in January 2023) sets out the many health and social harms associated with gambling – including homelessness, crime, relationship harms, mental health problems and suicide.
At present, comparable Scotland specific data is not available. However work is underway in Public Health Scotland to identify and understand what data is currently available, analyse that data to inform future developments (linking to Scottish Health Survey data), and consider what further data collection may be necessary. PHS are also piloting a whole systems approach, working with partners in Glasgow, to mitigate the impact of gambling harm in a specific local authority area.
Report Dec. 21 2023
Committee: Culture, Media and Sport Committee (Department: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport)Found: Second Report - Gambling regulation HC 176 Report
Correspondence Sep. 05 2023
Committee: Culture, Media and Sport Committee (Department: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport)Found: It is recognised now by experts that gambling can be a dominant factor in a suicide without which the
Mentions:
1: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) way, it would rightly be classed as child neglect.Young people are left self-harming and attempting suicide - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hollins (XB - Life peer) There are rising rates of self-harm and suicide, particularly in teenage girls. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bshp - Bishops) to law they should not even be gambling. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) Particularly worryingly, suicide rates among young females have been steadily increasing.Looking ahead - Speech Link