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1695420

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2024
	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	Sports: Gambling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of self-regulation by the sporting industry in reducing the quantity of gambling messaging seen by viewers.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	18122
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2024 answer text <p>In our approach to gambling advertising, we have struck a balanced and evidence-led approach which tackles aggressive advertising that is most likely to appeal to children, while recognising that advertising is an entirely legitimate commercial practice for responsible gambling firms.</p><p>We have welcomed the industry's whistle-to-whistle ban on TV betting adverts during live sports programmes. According to figures from the Betting and Gaming Council, the ban reduced the quantity of gambling advertisement views by children (age 4-17) by 70% over the full duration of live sporting programmes.</p><p>Further, alongside the Premier League’s announcement that it will ban gambling sponsors from the front of shirts by the end of the 2025/26 season, the gambling white paper commitment for a cross-sport Code of Conduct for gambling sponsorship has now been agreed by a number of the country’s major sports governing bodies. This will guarantee that where gambling sponsorship does appear, it is done in a responsible way to ensure fans, especially children, are better protected. This code will include provisions to ensure replica shirts for both children and adults are available without front-of-shirt gambling logos and a proportion of in-stadia advertising is dedicated to safer gambling messaging.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 20/03/2024 14:48:17 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1675423

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2023
	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, whether her Department plans to introduce age verification checks for online streams of gambling content.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	5222
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p>The Government recognises that it is particularly important to take steps to protect young people from online harms and is aware of issues around online streaming of gambling content. We welcome the measures which some streaming platforms have taken to ban the streaming of gambling content where it may reach underage audiences.</p><p>Many online streamers of gambling content have affiliations with the gambling sites on which they play to target consumers in Great Britain and encourage them to gamble. This brings them under the current regulatory umbrella for gambling advertising. Where streams amount to advertising then they are subject to the robust rules that are in place to ensure that gambling advertising is socially responsible and cannot be targeted at or strongly appeal to children. This ensures licensees are held to account for the activities of their marketing affiliates.</p><p>Further, there are robust age verification requirements in place to prevent children from creating online gambling accounts or accessing facilities to gamble themselves, even where they have seen streams. As outlined in the white paper, the measures introduced in 2019 have been effective in preventing children from being able to gamble online with either their own or invented identities.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 13/12/2023 17:15:39 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1675424

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2023
	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 plans her Department has to (a) investigate and (b) regulate (i) crypto-casinos and (ii) other new and emerging forms of gambling.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	5223
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p>All providers of betting and gambling services in the UK must be approved and licenced by the Gambling Commission. Where crypto-assets are used, they are required to notify the Gambling Commission. No licensee has informed the Commission that they are directly accepting crypto-asset deposits.</p><p>The Commission already has a range of investigatory and prosecution powers, but we are further strengthening its ability to take down criminal gambling websites though the Criminal Justice Bill.</p><p>We continue to work with the Commission to consider the risks posed by novel forms of gambling or boundary pushing products.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 13/12/2023 17:20:56 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1675426

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2023
	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: Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of gambling advertising on gambling harm.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	5225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p>His Majesty’s Government recognises that, while millions of people gamble online without experiencing problems, for some it becomes an addiction with serious consequences. It is particularly important to take steps to protect those most at risk of problem gambling.</p><p>There are robust rules in place to ensure that gambling advertising is socially responsible and cannot be targeted at or strongly appeal to children. Gambling advertising is covered by the UK Advertising Codes which are regulated by the Advertising Standards Authority, and there are also specific Gambling Commission licence conditions which regulate how gambling operators advertise. The UK Advertising Codes were further strengthened last year with new protections for children and vulnerable adults.</p><p>Earlier this year, we published the white paper on gambling which outlined a comprehensive package of reforms to make gambling safer. This included measures to tackle the most aggressive and harmful advertising practices by preventing bonuses being constructed and targeted in harmful ways, giving customers more control over the marketing they receive, and introducing messaging on the risks associated with gambling.</p><p>The Commission has already consulted on improving marketing consents, and we are working closely with them and others to bring the changes into force as quickly as possible.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 13/12/2023 17:19:11 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield