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Gambling

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.

answeredDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport

About this written question

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Answering body
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Tabled
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
13 Jan 2025
Answer
17 Jan 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    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.

  2. 13 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    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...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Greentube Alderney

16 Jan 2025 · 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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Gambling: Advertising

29 Jan 2025 · 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

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Gambling: Advertising

29 Jan 2025 · 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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Gambling: Advertising

30 Jan 2025 · 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

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Gambling: Internet

12 Feb 2025 · 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

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Bet365

27 Mar 2025 · 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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Gambling: Regulation

27 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to regulate unregulated legal gambling.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Gambling: Internet

28 Apr 2025 · 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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Gambling: Licensing

28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to improve enforcement against unlicensed gambling operators.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Gambling: Ombudsman

15 May 2025 · 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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Bet365

30 May 2025 · 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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Gambling: Regulation

30 May 2025 · 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