Question follow-through · 73167
Gaming Machines: Payment Methods
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to update regulations on payment methods for amusement machines.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 25 Sept 2025 · 27 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to update regulations on payment methods for amusement machines.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Sept 2025
Answer published
Direct use of debit cards and credit cards is currently prohibited on all gaming machines in Great Britain. The previous Government’s 2023 gambling white paper proposed removing the prohibition on the direct use of debit cards on gaming machines, subject ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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5 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help support the tourism industry in the South West.
Television Licences
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