Found: Member's explanatory statement This new clause would disapply existing criminal law related
Found: Member's explanatory statement This new clause would disapply existing criminal law related
Report Apr. 24 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: Some 63,680 (59%) of the 108,600 students enrolled on business and management-related courses.
Mentions:
1: Lucy Frazer (Con - South East Cambridgeshire) about financial regulation, although I am very pleased that the Premier League has taken action on gambling - Speech Link
2: Lucy Frazer (Con - South East Cambridgeshire) only right that a club seeking to relocate has to demonstrate that such a move would not significantly harm - Speech Link
3: Robin Millar (Con - Aberconwy) constituents, is about the matter being treated simplistically, as if there was just one set of financially related - Speech Link
4: Caroline Dinenage (Con - Gosport) fact that the Bill confers enforcement powers on the independent regulator to protect clubs from any harm - Speech Link
5: Jeff Smith (Lab - Manchester, Withington) EFL clubs are gambling everything to get into the premier league, failing, and facing financial crisis - Speech Link
Found: To move the following Clause— “Removal of women from the criminal law related to abortion For
Asked by: Preet Kaur Gill (Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham, Edgbaston)
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 4 March 2024 to Question 16199 on Alcoholic Drinks: Health, whether the post of (a) Head of Alcohol Policy and (b) Senior Policy Manager for Alcohol is (i) occupied and (ii) combined with other policy areas.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Health Improvement Directorate leads on public health policy to reduce alcohol-related health harm. Within the directorate, the Head of Alcohol and Gambling and the Head of Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery, which have direct responsibility for aspects of alcohol policy, are occupied. There are several policy and programme leads working directly on different aspects of alcohol policy and programme delivery. There are two live vacancies in the alcohol and gambling policy and programme team, and we are recruiting staff to fill them.
Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) concerns.As the PPA says, centralising cookie consent with browsers could cause consumers far more harm - Speech Link
2: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) I am not a gambling man. It is an interesting term. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) also include a joint account holder or, where housing benefit is paid direct, a landlord and all their related - Speech Link
4: None that the DWP intends to focus on the state pension … This is specifically about ensuring that means-related - Speech Link
5: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) There were a number of questions on the other group that related specifically to people’s willingness - Speech Link
Found: for a parent waiting trial, or on bail for a domestic abuse, sexual violence or child abuse related
Asked by: Drew Hendry (Scottish National Party - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure that gambling firms support problem gamblers (a) to stop gambling and (b) into recovery.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
The Gambling White Paper set out a balanced and proportionate set of proposals to protect those at risk of experiencing gambling harm.
There are already a range of obligations on gambling operators to identify and prevent gambling-related harm, which can include signposting to sources of specialist support from organisations who deal with advice and treatment for harmful gambling. Following the white paper, we are introducing a range of new, proportionate controls to further protect vulnerable people from the practices and products which can drive harm. These include new light-touch, frictionless financial risk checks, a stake limit for online slots games, improvements to customer-led tools, and tougher restrictions on bonuses and direct marketing. These measures will be complemented by strengthened messaging about the risks associated with gambling. We are also introducing a new statutory levy paid by operators to fund research, prevention, and treatment of gambling-related harms so that people can access the right help when and where they need it.
We are working with the Gambling Commission and other stakeholders to bring these measures into force as quickly as possible, and have already held consultations on a number of important proposals so we can finalise details ahead of implementation.
Asked by: Carolyn Harris (Labour - Swansea East)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department’s consultation on the statutory levy on gambling operators, which closed on 14 December 2023, how many responses to the consultation were received in total; and what proportion of those responses were from the gambling industry.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
The introduction of a statutory levy on gambling operators will represent a generational change to funding arrangements and a renewed commitment to improving efforts to further understand, tackle and treat harmful gambling. We want to see levy funding directed where it is needed most across research, prevention and treatment of gambling-related harms. As set out in our public consultation, the prevention stream could see investment directed for projects to build capacity and expertise in frontline settings to increase responsiveness to gambling harm, including criminal justice settings.
We are now closely considering all evidence received to best guide the implementation of the statutory levy in an effective, fair and proportionate way. We will publish a response to the consultation setting out our final decisions soon. This will also include a full list of organisations who agreed to attribute their response to their organisation.