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
Mar. 19 2024
Source Page: Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: June 2023Found: and offences related to the National Lottery0753907539 - Cheating at gambling or enabling or assisting
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had recent discussions with Cabinet colleagues on investigations of gambling-related suicides.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
His Majesty’s Government recognises that, while millions of people gamble without experiencing problems, for some it becomes an addiction with serious consequences. It is particularly important to take steps to protect those, particularly young people, who are at risk of experiencing gambling harm.
In April 2023 the Department for Culture, Media and Sport published a White Paper following our review of the Gambling Act 2005. The White Paper outlined a series of measures to tackle practices and products which can drive harm and to ensure that people who are at risk of gambling harm and addiction are protected, including a commitment to introduce a new statutory levy paid by operators to fund research, prevention, and treatment. We are working at pace with the Gambling Commission to bring these measures into force as quickly as possible.
In October 2023 the Gambling Commission published its decision to introduce a specific reporting requirement requiring gambling businesses to inform the Commission when they become aware of a person who has gambled with them has died by suicide. This requirement will come into force on 1 April 2024. While it is the role of the Coroner to investigate such death, where the Commission is made aware that a customer of a licensee has died by suicide, it will consider whether there is evidence of suspected regulatory failings and whether it would be appropriate and proportionate to take any regulatory action.
Mentions:
1: Ronnie Cowan (SNP - Inverclyde) Advertising increases the gambling industry revenue. Advertising normalises gambling. - Speech Link
2: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) According to the Gambling Commission, 80,000 UK children are addicted to gambling or at risk of gambling - Speech Link
3: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) We have heard already that more than one person a day commits suicide in the UK because of gambling-related - Speech Link
4: Ronnie Cowan (SNP - Inverclyde) I am sure that in some cases individuals have committed suicide because of their gambling addiction. - Speech Link
Mar. 13 2024
Source Page: Scottish Health Survey and health record dataFound: Schedule: Deliberate self-harm questionnaireWellbeing2019DSH5SC1778DSH Ever deliberately self-harmed (suicide
Mentions:
1: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) Once again, the Conservatives are gambling with the public finances and economic stability. - Speech Link
2: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) preventable diseases.”At-risk women in the north-east are 1.7 times more likely to die early as a result of suicide - Speech Link
3: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) Despite uncertainty and anguish in the sector about the ringfenced funding for local suicide prevention - Speech Link
Mar. 06 2024
Source Page: Scotland's Mental Health and Wellbeing Delivery Plan: Equality Impact AssessmentFound: The socio -demographic profile of gamblers appears to change as gambling risk increases, with harmful
Feb. 28 2024
Source Page: Government response to consultation on proposals for the introduction of a maximum stake limit for online slots games in Great Britain. Incl. annex. 27p.Found: the regulation of the gambling sector .
Require a cooling off period and mental health adverts on gambling platforms
- 74 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 118 - 1 added in the past 24hrs)
We would like the Government to legislate for a cooling off period, prior to every bet being confirmed, on all gambling platforms, to help protect people from gambling harms. This should be combined with mandatory mental health adverts across all gambling platforms.
Found: In 2023, it is estimated that there were up to 496 deaths by suicide relating to gambling in England,
Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (LAB - Neath) gambling in Britain. - Speech Link
2: Carolyn Harris (Lab - Swansea East) Safer Gambling” logos and promoting safer gambling week. - Speech Link
3: Philip Davies (Con - Shipley) Gentleman has repeated this line that over 400 people a year die of suicide as a result of gambling—a - Speech Link
4: Ronnie Cowan (SNP - Inverclyde) many of those Members sitting in front of grieving parents whose child has been driven to complete suicide - Speech Link
5: Ronnie Cowan (SNP - Inverclyde) What price the number of people who have been driven to complete suicide? - Speech Link