Question follow-through · 29622
Gambling: Age
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government plans to reduce the legal age to (a) buy Lottery tickets and (b) gamble.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 6 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 13 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government plans to reduce the legal age to (a) buy Lottery tickets and (b) gamble.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Government has no plans to reduce the legal age to buy lottery tickets or to gamble.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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