Question follow-through · 6915
Gambling: Mobile Phones
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of gambling companies' use of mobile phone apps on the addictive nature of their products for users.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 4 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Culture, media and sport
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Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Recorded timeline
4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of gambling companies' use of mobile phone apps on the addictive nature of their products for users.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Government recognises the impact harmful gambling can have on individuals and their families and, as stated in its manifesto, is committed to strengthening the protections for those at risk and working with industry on how to ensure responsible gambli...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
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22 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to review the Gambling Commission’s remit to include UK licensees operating in prohibited markets abroad.
Media: Education
22 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help improve media literacy.
Gambling: Advertising
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