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Articles tagged with: Gambling
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Health
By Betting And Gaming Council
MAJOR SPIKE IN BLACK MARKET GAMBLING DURING WORLD CUP, NEW STUDY SHOWS
The number of UK punters visiting unregulated online black market gambling sites tripled during the World Cup, new research reveals.
John Spellar MP: Our economy needs the betting and gaming industry Partner content
Economy
By Betting And Gaming Council
John Spellar MP: Our economy needs the betting and gaming industry
The Gambling White Paper is an opportunity to safeguard a £7.1 billion Great British success story.
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Health
By Betting And Gaming Council
NUMBER OF TV BETTING ADS DURING WORLD CUP FALLS BY OVER A THIRD COMPARED TO LAST WORLD CUP
The number of TV betting adverts shown on ITV during the World Cup group stages fell by 34 per cent compared to the World Cup in 2018, new figures have revealed.
Loot boxes or Pandora's boxes? Why paid for rewards in video games may be more sinister than they appear
Culture
By Sophie Church
Loot boxes or Pandora's boxes? Why paid for rewards in video games may be more sinister than they appear
Loot boxes offer players the chance to buy virtual, randomised rewards within a video game. As concerns mount about young gamers developing gambling-like behaviours, Sophie Church gauges the extent of the problem.
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Health
By Betting And Gaming Council
COMPULSORY AFFORDABILITY CHECKS THREATEN REGULATED BETTING AND GAMING INDUSTRY, WARNS MAJOR REPORT BY EY
Britain’s regulated betting and gaming sector has urged Government to publish a White Paper that delivers for business and punters, after a new study showed affordability checks are already hitting revenues.
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Health
By Betting And Gaming Council
SEVEN IN TEN BRITS THINK PLACING COMPULSORY HEALTH WARNINGS ON BETTING PRODUCTS WOULD FAIL TO TACKLE PROBLEM GAMBLING
71 per cent of the public believe Government health messaging – like those on cigarettes – would be ineffective at preventing problem gambling. Meanwhile almost half of the public (47 per cent) think banning popular promotions like ‘free bets’ wouldn’t help tackle problem gambling rates either.
Why we need to get the balance right on gambling reform Partner content
Health
By Betting And Gaming Council
Why we need to get the balance right on gambling reform
Targeted intervention is the best way for the government to uphold freedom and protect the most vulnerable when it comes to gambling.
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Education
By Betting And Gaming Council
TWO THIRDS OF PUNTERS BELIEVE NANNY STATE SPENDING LIMITS ON BETTING WOULD SPARK A RISE IN GAMBLING BLACK MARKET
Compulsory spending limits on betting risks driving more people to the unsafe, unregulated gambling black market, say 67 per cent of punters.
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Economy
By Betting And Gaming Council
BGC WELCOME PAUL SCULLY MP AS NEW GAMBLING MINISTER
Standards body the Betting and Gaming Council has congratulated Paul Scully MP on his appointment as Minister responsible for the betting and gaming industry.
How can anyone be against safer gambling? Partner content
Education
By Betting And Gaming Council
How can anyone be against safer gambling?
This week is Safer Gambling Week when we come together to promote better education and awareness, encourage even more people to use safer gambling tools like deposit limits and time-outs, and crucially when we signpost the advice, support and help that’s available to anyone who may be struggling. From betting shops to bingo clubs, casinos and online operators, and for the first-time betting operators in Ireland and across Europe too, it is an incredible show of unity to promote safe betting and gaming.
Enough Safer Gambling Week nonsense - only reform will reduce harm and boost economic growth Partner content
Health
By Gambling With Lives
Enough Safer Gambling Week nonsense - only reform will reduce harm and boost economic growth
The gambling industry in its current form poses a danger to public health and the Government's objective of going for growth. Long awaited reforms are needed in full and undiluted.
Labour’s next manifesto must tackle the harm caused by gambling
Culture
By Carolyn Harris MP
Labour’s next manifesto must tackle the harm caused by gambling
It was a Labour government that introduced current gambling legislation in 2005, but few could have foreseen the damage that was to come.
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Culture
By Betting And Gaming Council
BGC WELCOME MICHELLE DONELAN AS NEW SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DCMS
Standards body the Betting and Gaming Council has congratulated Michelle Donelan on becoming the new Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
Our new Prime Minister must get gambling reform right Partner content
Environment
By Betting And Gaming Council
Our new Prime Minister must get gambling reform right
Within a matter of days, we will have a new PM and a new Government. Any celebrations will be short lived. Because whoever wins the keys to Number 10 will face a tsunami of trouble. A mounting cost-of-living crisis, inflation and energy bills soaring to stratospheric levels, war in Europe and a recession just around the corner. With that in their in-tray on Day One, it’s fair to say reforms to gambling will be pretty low on the Government’s agenda.
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Education
By Betting And Gaming Council
NEW REGULATOR FIGURES CONFIRM PROBLEM GAMBLING RATES REMAIN LOW IN THE UK
New figures released by the Gambling Commission confirm the rates of problem gambling have remained historically low at 0.2% in the year to June 2022.
After the delay on gambling reform, new ministers should seek to find consensus and get things done quickly Partner content
Communities
By Betting And Gaming Council
After the delay on gambling reform, new ministers should seek to find consensus and get things done quickly
As Parliament packs off for the summer recess, and as Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss prepare to slug it out for the top job, it was understandable that a whole raft of planned Government announcements and potential proposals for new legislation - from DWP to Health - were put on hold until September.
Now is not the time to push ahead with the Gambling White Paper Partner content
Health
By Betting And Gaming Council
Now is not the time to push ahead with the Gambling White Paper
With reform to the betting and gaming industry having the potential to impact the lives of millions in this country, we need to give it the attention it deserves.
Stick or twist? Looming review fuels debate about gambling regulation
Communities
By Sheila Amedodah, Political Consultant
Stick or twist? Looming review fuels debate about gambling regulation
The government’s plan to update regulations for gambling must balance campaigners’ calls for more stringent safeguards and stakeholders’ warnings that additional measures could stifle the industry and fuel black market betting.
Betting and Gaming Industry unites to announce Safer Gambling Week 2022 and pledge to build on last year's record-breaking success Partner content
Social affairs
By Betting And Gaming Council
Betting and Gaming Industry unites to announce Safer Gambling Week 2022 and pledge to build on last year's record-breaking success
This year’s Safer Gambling Week event will run from 17th – 23rd October 2022 and will see the whole industry coming together in a concerted effort to further promote safer gambling messages, the tools available to customers to stay in control and the help and support available to those who champion higher standards.
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Economy
By Betting And Gaming Council
Nearly two-thirds of punters warn that forcing limits on their betting will drive them to the black market
Latest polling by YouGov found nearly two thirds of punters (65%) believe there is a large or substantial risk that setting limits on the amount of money spent on betting would drive more people to the unsafe, unregulated black market online. Polling also found almost 56 per cent of punters thought the Government should not set limits on how much money they could bet.
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Health
By Betting And Gaming Council
New figures confirm another drop in problem gambling rates in the UK
New figures released by the Gambling Commission confirm the rates of problem gambling have fallen to 0.2% in the year to March 2022.
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Economy
By Betting And Gaming Council
Regulated betting and gaming industry vows to back the Chancellor’s economic recovery plan with investment, jobs and tax revenues - but calls on the Government not to put this at risk in the Gambling Review.
Regulated betting and gaming industry vows to back the Chancellor’s economic recovery plan with investment, jobs and tax revenues - but calls on the Government not to put this at risk in the Gambling Review.
The Government should treat betting like booze - not like tobacco Partner content
Health
By Betting And Gaming Council
The Government should treat betting like booze - not like tobacco
After more than a year of waiting for the outcome of the Gambling Review, and with the Government changing its ministers more times than Watford change football managers, it strikes me that the debate has boiled down to this: should betting be treated like tobacco, which is inherently and universally damaging to all, or should it be treated more like alcohol, something millions of people do and where the vast majority are able to enjoy it responsibly, but where sadly a small minority can have a problem and, in the most extreme and terrible cases, it can be an addiction?
We cannot wait for children to become tomorrow’s problem gamblers to regulate sports advertising
Communities
By Carolyn Harris MP
We cannot wait for children to become tomorrow’s problem gamblers to regulate sports advertising
The delayed white paper on gambling reform offers a once in a generation chance to deal with the vast proliferation of gambling advertising that now dominates our screens.