Mentions:
1: Halcro Johnston, Jamie (Con - Highlands and Islands) Does gambling or betting happen at the tracks? - Speech Link
2: Fairlie, Jim (SNP - Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) Gambling does happen at the track in Thornton—the last one that is open in Scotland. - Speech Link
3: Halcro Johnston, Jamie (Con - Highlands and Islands) I take it that gambling is regulated. It is not just happening on the track. - Speech Link
4: Fairlie, Jim (SNP - Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) Footballers play football every week and risk breaking their legs. - Speech Link
Oct. 19 2023
Source Page: DCMS: Ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meeting Q1 23/24Found: Club, Crystal Palace Football Club, Leeds United, Aston Villa Football Club, Manchester United, Arsenal
Found: men’s elite football for the top five tier leagues in England.
Mentions:
1: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) We have had several meetings with racing stakeholders, the gambling industry and the Gambling Commission - Speech Link
2: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) to see their national football team on free-to-air television. - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) Friend is a big fan of American football. - Speech Link
Special Report Apr. 19 2024
Committee: Culture, Media and Sport Committee (Department: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport)Found: Sixth Special - Gambling regulation: Government Response to the Committee’s Second Report HC 698 Special
Mentions:
1: Lucy Frazer (Con - South East Cambridgeshire) Member says about our support for women in sport, and women in football. - Speech Link
2: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) particular lottery, and I have written to that lottery with suggestions, having consulted with the Gambling - Speech Link
3: Steve Tuckwell (Con - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) With both Wealdstone and Uxbridge football clubs embedded in my constituency, grassroots football is - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Matt Hancock (Ind - West Suffolk) people move from gambling on reputable platforms into unregulated gambling. - Speech Link
2: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) over 80,000 indirectly; there are 5 million racegoers a year, making it the second largest sport after football - Speech Link
3: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) to the Scottish Government.Racing remains the second most popularly attended sport in Scotland after football - Speech Link
4: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) damage that gambling does. - Speech Link
5: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) South Yorkshire and across the country.Horseracing is our country’s second largest sport—second only to football - Speech Link
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 Jul. 18 2023
Committee: Culture, Media and Sport Committee (Department: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport)Found: Letter from Stuart Andrew MP, Minister for Sport, Gambling and Civil Society, relating to the Independent
Mentions:
1: Lord Herbert of South Downs (CON - Life peer) Racing is the country’s second-largest sport—only football is bigger. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Effingham (CON - Excepted Hereditary) If asked, many people would cite football as the most attended sport in the UK; they would be right, - Speech Link
3: Lord Addington (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) Look at football—look outside your bubble—and at how that has changed and that structure has shifted. - Speech Link