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1688998

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Ground Rent: Reform
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to assess the risk of legal challenge to proposed policies in the consultation entitled Modern leasehold: restricting ground rent for existing leases.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	13943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>Government has consulted on a range of options to restrict ground rent in existing leases and asked questions about the effects of these proposals. We received a significant number of responses from a variety of sources. A consultation impact assessment has been published and can be found at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fconsultation-impact-assessment-modern-leasehold-restricting-ground-rent-for-existing-leases&amp;data=05%7C02%7CPS.Advisers%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cf20b2cd141f84ffc48b808dc322d5261%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638440417443619306%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=USJ%2F085W%2BAYS0EKwSzrLCADue1oD0pB4c6xUBcDfDKo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">​​Consultation impact assessment - modern leasehold: restricting ground rent for existing leases​</a>.</p><p>That consultation closed on 17 January, and Government is currently analysing the responses before taking a decision on how to restrict ground rents through the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill.</p><p>In line with the practice of successive administrations details of internal discussions are not normally disclosed.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 13944 13945 13946 13947 question first answered 21/02/2024 14:31:31 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1688999

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Ground Rent: Reform
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to his Department's consultation entitled Modern leasehold: restricting ground rent for existing leases, which closed on 17 January 2024, if he will make an assessment of the potential cost to the public purse of providing compensation to freeholders under those proposals.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	13944
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>Government has consulted on a range of options to restrict ground rent in existing leases and asked questions about the effects of these proposals. We received a significant number of responses from a variety of sources. A consultation impact assessment has been published and can be found at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fconsultation-impact-assessment-modern-leasehold-restricting-ground-rent-for-existing-leases&amp;data=05%7C02%7CPS.Advisers%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cf20b2cd141f84ffc48b808dc322d5261%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638440417443619306%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=USJ%2F085W%2BAYS0EKwSzrLCADue1oD0pB4c6xUBcDfDKo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">​​Consultation impact assessment - modern leasehold: restricting ground rent for existing leases​</a>.</p><p>That consultation closed on 17 January, and Government is currently analysing the responses before taking a decision on how to restrict ground rents through the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill.</p><p>In line with the practice of successive administrations details of internal discussions are not normally disclosed.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 13943 13945 13946 13947 question first answered 21/02/2024 14:31:31 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1689000

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Ground Rent: Reform
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to his Department's consultation entitled Modern leasehold: restricting ground rent for existing leases, which closed on 17 January 2024, whether he has has had discussions with colleagues on the compliance of those proposals with human rights law.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	13945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>Government has consulted on a range of options to restrict ground rent in existing leases and asked questions about the effects of these proposals. We received a significant number of responses from a variety of sources. A consultation impact assessment has been published and can be found at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fconsultation-impact-assessment-modern-leasehold-restricting-ground-rent-for-existing-leases&amp;data=05%7C02%7CPS.Advisers%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cf20b2cd141f84ffc48b808dc322d5261%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638440417443619306%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=USJ%2F085W%2BAYS0EKwSzrLCADue1oD0pB4c6xUBcDfDKo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">​​Consultation impact assessment - modern leasehold: restricting ground rent for existing leases​</a>.</p><p>That consultation closed on 17 January, and Government is currently analysing the responses before taking a decision on how to restrict ground rents through the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill.</p><p>In line with the practice of successive administrations details of internal discussions are not normally disclosed.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 13943 13944 13946 13947 question first answered 21/02/2024 14:31:31 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1689001

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Ground Rent: Pensioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the proposals in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill on pensioners whose income comes partly from ground rent.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	13946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>Government has consulted on a range of options to restrict ground rent in existing leases and asked questions about the effects of these proposals. We received a significant number of responses from a variety of sources. A consultation impact assessment has been published and can be found at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fconsultation-impact-assessment-modern-leasehold-restricting-ground-rent-for-existing-leases&amp;data=05%7C02%7CPS.Advisers%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cf20b2cd141f84ffc48b808dc322d5261%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638440417443619306%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=USJ%2F085W%2BAYS0EKwSzrLCADue1oD0pB4c6xUBcDfDKo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">​​Consultation impact assessment - modern leasehold: restricting ground rent for existing leases​</a>.</p><p>That consultation closed on 17 January, and Government is currently analysing the responses before taking a decision on how to restrict ground rents through the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill.</p><p>In line with the practice of successive administrations details of internal discussions are not normally disclosed.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 13943 13944 13945 13947 question first answered 21/02/2024 14:31:31 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1689002

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Ground Rent
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to para 1.12 of his Department's consultation entitled Modern leasehold: restricting ground rent for existing leases, which closed on 17 January 2024, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of capping ground rents at a peppercorn on the pensions industry.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	13947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>Government has consulted on a range of options to restrict ground rent in existing leases and asked questions about the effects of these proposals. We received a significant number of responses from a variety of sources. A consultation impact assessment has been published and can be found at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fconsultation-impact-assessment-modern-leasehold-restricting-ground-rent-for-existing-leases&amp;data=05%7C02%7CPS.Advisers%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cf20b2cd141f84ffc48b808dc322d5261%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638440417443619306%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=USJ%2F085W%2BAYS0EKwSzrLCADue1oD0pB4c6xUBcDfDKo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">​​Consultation impact assessment - modern leasehold: restricting ground rent for existing leases​</a>.</p><p>That consultation closed on 17 January, and Government is currently analysing the responses before taking a decision on how to restrict ground rents through the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill.</p><p>In line with the practice of successive administrations details of internal discussions are not normally disclosed.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 13943 13944 13945 13946 question first answered 21/02/2024 14:31:31 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1684394

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gambling: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the (a) Gambling Commission and (b) Financial Conduct Authority on potential proposals to regulate companies like Football Index.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	11033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2024 answer text <p>The collapse of BetIndex Ltd, the operators of the novel gambling product Football Index, had a significant impact on former customers, and we recognise the frustration and anger that this has caused. As a result, the Government announced an Independent Review, conducted by Malcom Sheehan KC, which looked at how the company had been regulated and identified lessons learned for various agencies. These recommendations have since been implemented.</p><p>Following the collapse of Football Index, the then-Minister held several meetings with the Gambling Commission, and officials have worked closely with their counterparts at His Majesty’s Treasury on the role of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in this case. I also met representatives from the Football Index Action Group last year and officials from the department are discussing the issues raised by the group with the Gambling Commission.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 02/02/2024 15:04:26 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1674349

registered interest
date	30/11/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gambling: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what systems the Gambling Commission has in place to (a) monitor, (b) close down and (c) take other action against illegal gambling sites.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	4645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>As set out in the response to WPQ 2835, the best available estimates suggest the black market accounts for less than 2.5% of bets in this country. The Gambling Commission takes a risk-based approach to the illegal provision of gambling facilities. The 2021 fees uplift increased investment in how the Commission monitors and tackles the black market. It operates on a system of escalating interventions where it identifies unlicensed operators interacting with British customers, from initial cease and desist letters up to more robust disruption. This includes working with internet search and service providers to delist illegal operators and restrict access, working with payment providers and financial institutions to cut illegal operators off from payments, and working with software providers to prevent access to popular products and games.</p><p>As we committed to in the white paper, we are also legislating through the Criminal Justice Bill to give stronger powers to the Gambling Commission to take down criminal gambling websites, and plan to reform the Commission's fee structure to give it greater flexibility to respond to emerging risks, such as black market gambling.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 04/12/2023 14:21:13 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1671971

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gambling: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the number of online illegal gambling sites accessible from the UK.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	2835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>There are inherent difficulties in accurately estimating the scale of the unlicensed gambling market in this country. We are not aware of any robust estimates for precisely how many unlicensed sites are accessible from the UK, and this is further complicated by the high churn in black market operations.</p><p>However, the Government is aware of a number of studies including from the industry which suggests that the black market accounts for less than 2.5% of bets. Data from the Gambling Commission also suggests that the scale of the black market has remained low and stable, with little variation in the number of complaints it has received about illegal gambling websites.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 27/11/2023 15:37:48 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1671972

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Gambling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the potential revenue lost from illegal gambling.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	2836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) estimates the size of the tax gap, which is the difference between the amount of tax that should, in theory, be paid to HMRC, and what is actually paid. The tax gap statistics are published annually and are available at: Measuring tax gaps - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps" target="_blank">Measuring tax gaps 2023 edition: tax gap estimates for 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>HMRC does not separately estimate a betting and gaming duty tax gap; it forms part of the ‘other excise duties’ tax gap, namely betting and gaming, cider and perry, spirits-based ready-to-drink beverages and wine duties gaps.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 28/11/2023 14:57:03 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1656120

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gambling Commission: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what proportion of (a) board members and (b) employees of the Gambling Commission have previous experience in the industries that they regulate.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	195826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2023 answer text <p>The Commission does not collect data on previous employers of its current staff but ensures that staff are able to access specialist knowledge to make informed and evidence-based decisions. The Commission also has a Managing Conflicts of Interest Policy that explains how it identifies and manages conflicts.</p><p>Job specifications for Commissioners reflect the range of skills and experience required by the Board including customer protection and insight, law enforcement and data science and digital innovation. Biographies of the current board members are available on Gov.uk.</p><p>As part of the fair and open process to recruit board members, candidates are assessed on their experience in different sectors, their understanding of the Gambling Commission’s work and the importance of effective, independent, proportionate, and impartial regulation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 12/09/2023 14:20:11 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies