Iain Duncan Smith MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
TGP Europe: LicensingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54596More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department is taking steps to prohibit the owners of white label gambling operator TGP Europe from holding gambling licenses in the future.
Answer: Gambling operating licences are issued by the Gambling Commission, the regulator for gambling in Great Britain. Following the Commission’s investigation, TGP Europe surrendered their operating licence.Where a licensee surrenders its licence whilst a licen...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: RegulationDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54595More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 April 2025 to Question 41783 on Bet365, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Gambling Commission’s regulatory action against operators t
Answer: An assessment of which regulatory actions may be appropriate in a compliance case is for the Gambling Commission to make. The Commission expects licensed operators to obey the laws of all other jurisdictions in which they operate, such as China, and requi...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBet365Department for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54594More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 April 2025 to Question 41783 on Bet365, what enforcement measures the Gambling Commission has considered in relation to Bet365’s operations in China.
Answer: An assessment of which regulatory actions may be appropriate in a compliance case is for the Gambling Commission to make. The Commission expects licensed operators to obey the laws of all other jurisdictions in which they operate, such as China, and requi...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: OmbudsmanDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52579More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent progress her Department has made on the establishment of the gambling ombudsman.
Answer: We are looking at options for improving Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) provision for customers, including the establishment of a gambling ombudsman. The Minister for Gambling will confirm our plans in due course.
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: LicensingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48345More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to improve enforcement against unlicensed gambling operators.
Answer: We are committed to working closely with the Gambling Commission to ensure that illegal gambling, in all its forms, is addressed.In the past year, the Commission has significantly increased its disruption activity and has a renewed focus on finding innova...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: InternetDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48344More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of enforcement action against unlicensed online gambling operators.
Answer: We are committed to working closely with the Gambling Commission to ensure that illegal gambling, in all its forms, is addressed.In the past year, the Commission has significantly increased its disruption activity and has a renewed focus on finding innova...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: RegulationDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41784More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to regulate unregulated legal gambling.
Answer: Gambling in Great Britain is regulated by the Gambling Commission, which operates a point of consumption licensing regime. Most legal gambling in Great Britain is regulated.
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBet365Department for Culture, Media and SportTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41783More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will withdrawn Bet365's UK operating licence for openly operating in China.
Answer: As the independent regulator, it is the Gambling Commission’s duty to ensure that operators comply with the requirements set out in the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice and to take appropriate regulatory action against those operators which fail t...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: InternetDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30964More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the oral contribution by the Minister for Sport, Media, Civil Society and Youth of 5 February 2025, Official Report, column 373WH, on account-based online play, what steps her D
Answer: The Gambling Commission is in the process of introducing a number of regulatory reforms that build on current account level player protections, including financial vulnerability checks, improved tools for financial limit setting and improved choice in dir...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: AdvertisingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27508More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had recent discussions with gambling (a) companies and (b) operators on (i) advertising to (A) children and (B) other vulnerable people and (ii) their compliance with advertising
Answer: As the Gambling Minister set out in her speech at the GambleAware conference in December 2024, the industry has now been set a clear task to further raise standards to ensure that gambling advertising is appropriate, responsible, and does not exacerbate h...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: AdvertisingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27092More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a ban on gambling advertisements in video games PEGI rated 18 and under.
Answer: Gambling operators must ensure that their advertising is not targeted at children and must not appear in media created for children or for which children make up 25% or more of the audience. Operators must also ensure that they take all reasonable steps t...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: AdvertisingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27091More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she has taken with the Advertising Standards Authority to tackle online gambling advertisements (a) targeting children and (b) failing to disclose the presence of (i) loot boxes and (i
Answer: Gambling operators must ensure that their advertising is not targeted at children and must not appear in media created for children or for which children make up 25% or more of the audience. Operators must also ensure that they take all reasonable steps t...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGreentube AlderneyDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24408More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of revoking the gambling licenses of Greentube Alderney Limited.
Answer: As the independent regulator, it is the Gambling Commission’s duty to ensure that operators comply with the requirements set out in the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice and to take appropriate regulatory action against those operators which fail t...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGamblingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22556More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an estimate of the number of high-street gambling operators in possession of non-remote bingo licenses that are operating as adult gambling centres.
Answer: As of 31 March 2024, there were 631 non-remote bingo premises in operation in Great Britain, according to the Gambling Commission’s November 2024 Industry Statistics.As set out in the Gambling Commission’s Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice, in lice...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: TaxationDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21257More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress she has made on the prevention framework under the statutory levy; and if she will take steps to ensure that prevention work is undertaken independently from (a) the gambling indust
Answer: As set out in the Government’s response to the consultation on the statutory levy, further consideration of the evidence is needed in order to appoint an appropriate body to lead the prevention strand of the levy system. We will confirm our decisions in d...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFootball: GamblingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18876More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of a ban on gambling (a) sponsorship and (b) advertising in football.
Answer: As the Minister for Gambling set out in her speech at the GambleAware conference on 4 December, we want to see the gambling industry further raise standards to ensure that levels of gambling advertising does not exacerbate harm. This work will be monitore...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordGambling: MarketingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 12 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13730More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of Ipsos and the University of Bristol's report entitled Drivers of Gambling Marketing Restrictions – An Internationa
Answer: The Government is committed to strengthening protections to ensure that people can reduce the risks that can ensue from harmful gambling. We are committed to reviewing the best available evidence on the impact of gambling advertising from a wide range of ...
Answered 20 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordGambling: AdvertisingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2706More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the prevalence of gambling advertising in the context of the findings of the Gambling Survey of Great Britain, published on 25 July 2024.
Answer: We are in the early stages of the new Government and are still considering the full range of gambling policy. The Government recognises the impact harmful gambling can have on individuals and their families and, as stated in its manifesto, the Government ...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordGambling: TaxationDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2705More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will immediately implement a statutory levy on gambling operators to fund research, education and treatment of gambling harms.
Answer: We are in the early stages of the new Government and are still considering the full range of gambling policy. The Government recognises the impact harmful gambling can have on individuals and their families and, as stated in its manifesto, the Government ...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordGambling: ReformDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2704More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take urgent steps to implement the reforms set out in the white paper entitled High stakes: gambling reform for the digital age, published by the previous Administration on 27 April 2
Answer: We are in the early stages of the new Government and are still considering the full range of gambling policy. The Government recognises the impact harmful gambling can have on individuals and their families and, as stated in its manifesto, the Government ...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordGamblingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2703More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she plans to take to prevent gambling harms in the context of the findings of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain published on 25 July 2024.
Answer: We are in the early stages of the new Government and are still considering the full range of gambling policy. The Government recognises the impact harmful gambling can have on individuals and their families and, as stated in its manifesto, the Government ...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
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