Question follow-through · 901170
Gambling: Black Economy
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to gambling taxes and regulations on the size of the black market in that sector.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 27 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 3 Sept 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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- Gambling · 14 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
27 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to gambling taxes and regulations on the size of the black market in that sector.
3 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Sept 2026
Answer published
The government published behavioural costings assumptions relating to gambling duty changes at Budget 2025. We want a modern regulated gambling sector and are taking action on illegal gambling. We provided an extra £26 million in funding to the Gambling C...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Gambling
14 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to distinguish between licensed adult gaming centres and illegal gambling activity.