Question follow-through · 86190
Gaming Machines: Public Houses
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the contribution of gaming machines to the level of pubs’ supplementary income.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 29 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 11 Nov 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the contribution of gaming machines to the level of pubs’ supplementary income.
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Government recognises the contribution of pubs to the nighttime economy in the UK, as well as the commercial pressures they face.Although the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Gambling Commission do not hold official statistics on the co...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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