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<p>The licensing objectives in the Gambling Act 2005 are principles to be applied
by the Gambling Commission and other licensing authorities in exercising their functions
under the Act. The Commission is required to permit gambling in so far as it thinks
it reasonably consistent with pursuit of the licensing objectives: a) preventing gambling
from being a source of crime or disorder, being associated with crime or disorder
or being used to support crime, b) ensuring that gambling is conducted in a fair and
open way, and c) protecting children and other vulnerable persons from being harmed
or exploited by gambling.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The government’s Review of
Gaming Machines and Social Responsibility Measures began with the publication of a
call for evidence in autumn 2016, including on whether changes were needed to stake
and prize limits on gaming machines. The objective of the Review was to determine
what, if any, changes were needed to strike the right balance between socially responsible
growth and the protection of consumers and wider communities. The call for evidence
was followed by a consultation paper published in October 2017, with the government’s
decision to cut stakes on B2 machines in betting shops to £2 announced in the government
response to the consultation in May 2018. The stake cut was in due course implemented
via statutory instrument in April 2019.</p><p><strong><p><p></strong></p><p>The government
gave careful consideration to a wide range of evidence in the course of the Gaming
Machines Review and this evidence and government’s analysis and conclusions were set
out in the consultation, government response and the accompanying impact assessment,
published at</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-proposals-for-changes-to-gaming-machines-and-social-responsibility-measures.
Evidence submitted to the call for evidence was also published at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/call-for-evidence-review-of-gaming-machines-and-social-responsibility-measures.</p><p>
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