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April 19, 2021
Despite UK gambling being dragged through the political storms of a torrid March fall-out. Regulus Partners states the House of Lords should save itself from an unwarranted debate on which government department takes reign of gambling’s regulatory oversight.
This week, members of the House of Lords will attempt to revive the idea that gambling policy should be the responsibility of the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).
The debate (secured by the Bishop of St Albans) will likely consist of claims about the widespread and growing harms caused by gambling and the idea that a ‘
Review of unlicensed online gambling in the UK’ report was published by the Betting and Gaming Council on 4 February. This was three weeks after the Chief Executive of the Gambling Commission had written to Carolyn Harris commenting: “We know that licensed operators and their trade bodies are concerned about the impact of the illegal market, but our own evidence suggests that the impact may be being exaggerated”.
That comment surely needs to be reconsidered in the context of survey findings in the PwC report that found the proportion of UK online gamblers using an unlicensed operator has more than doubled from 2.2% to 4.5% in the last 1-2 years, equating to an increase from about 210,000 players in 2018-19 to about 460,000 in 2020. It also found that the share of online stakes with unlicensed operators had almost doubled from 1.2% in 2018/19 to 2.3%, corresponding to a doubling of stakes with unlicensed online operators from £1.4 billion to £2.8 billion.
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Gambling companies are required to monitor their customers’ activity and intervene if players rapidly increase the amount of money or time they spend online betting.
Kindred banks more than £1.1 billion from bets each year, suggesting £48.3 million comes from potential addicts.
But experts cast doubt on the number, saying bookmakers are unlikely to use the same measures as psychologists and researchers, and the real figure could be much higher.
Last year a House of Lords committee estimated that 60 per cent of gambling losses came from a hardcore group of problem gamblers, who make up just 5 per cent of customers.
Gambling companies are required to monitor their customers’ activity and intervene if players rapidly increase the amount of money or time they spend online betting. Kindred banks more than £1.1 billion from bets each year, suggesting £48.3 million comes from potential addicts (stock image)
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