Examination of Witnesses (Questions 700
- 701)
TUESDAY 20 JANUARY 2004
MR PETER
SAVILL, MR
CHRISTOPHER FOSTER,
MR RUPERT
ARNOLD AND
MR CLIVE
REAMS
Q700 Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville:
Is there any question you would have expected us to ask which
we have not asked you?
Mr Savill: If there were any I
did not want you to ask I am certainly not going to tell you what
they were!
Q701 Chairman: Is there anything
any of you wanted to say to us that you have not had the opportunity
of saying?
Mr Savill: The only other things
I would say—because I am always a great believer in trying
to find solutions and not just go on about what the problem is—I
think we need to look at, if there is going to be a considerably
increased cost in the additional regulation of betting exchanges,
the degree to which the betting exchanges are actually going to
pay for that. Secondly, I think there is no question we have to
have a very, very effective and strong monitoring service, and
also a very strong early warning service down onto the racecourse.
The loss of betting intelligence officers have clearly made that
communication more difficult. If trainer and jockey are warned
in advance of a race, as they are about to go out into the paddock,
that they are being watched like a hawk, there is absolutely no
question that will have a deterrent effect on them, and that must
be an important part of the regulation.
Chairman: We will return to this again
on Thursday when the exchanges come. Just a final comment, Lord
McIntosh made it absolutely clear betting exchanges will be regulated
by the Gambling Commission; if they are not they will be illegal
and will be stopped. We shall continue to ask questions about
how they will be regulated, and hope we can find some solutions.
In the meantime, gentlemen, thank you all very much for your attendance
today and for the clarity of the answers you have given to us.
Thank you.
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