Select Committee on the Social and Economic Impact of the Gambling Industry
Gambling Harm—Time for Action
Report of Session 2019-21 - published 2 July 2020 - HL Paper 79
Contents
Chapter 2: Background and the current situation
Gambling—the statutory definition
Draft Gambling Bill and pre-legislative scrutiny
Social and economic benefits of gambling
Chapter 3: The gambling industry: structure, development and current picture
Figure 1: GGY by Sector, October 2018 to September 2019
Figure 2: Machines GGY by sector location
Figure 4: Location of online gambling in the past four weeks
Young people and online gambling
Building safer online gambling
Box 1: The Commission’s statutory functions under the Act
Strategy to reduce gambling harms
Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP)
How the Gambling Commission is performing: the views of witnesses
Regulation by local authorities
Chapter 5: Gambling-related harm
Figure 5: Distribution of problem gamblers in Great Britain by age and sex
British Gambling Prevalence Survey
The value to the industry: the greater the problem, the higher the profit
Figure 6: Percentage of online gambling industry profits derived from each category of gambler
The wider impact of gambling harms
The Department with primary responsibility
Box 2: Government departments with responsibilities for gambling
Statistics through the coronial process
Figure 7: VIP account and deposit comparator (online)
Disputes between customers and operators
Chapter 6: Children and young people
Young people and gambling prevalence
Young people and problem gambling
Loot boxes and problem gambling
Underage gambling and problem gambling
Interdependence of sport and betting
A ban on all advertising of gambling
Chapter 8: Research, education and treatment
Funding of research, education and treatment
Funding problems with a voluntary levy
Availability of data for research
The National Problem Gambling Clinic
Chapter 9: Lotteries, including the National Lottery
Gambling prevalence for lotteries
Summary of conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest
Appendix 4: Extracts from election manifestos
Appendix 5: Acronyms and abbreviations
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