Regulus Partners comments on the loss of gambling’s voice in Parliament following the All Party Parliamentary Betting and Gaming Group’s decision to close its ranks. UK gambling requires a new approach to engage with MPs on pending matters. The paper tiger of gambling’s ‘powerful industry lobby’ emitted a plaintive meow this week, as the All Party Parliamentary Betting and Gaming …
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Winning Post: UK plays Multiple Choice on Problem Gambling Prevalence
The UK Gambling Commission has recently set out an ambition for its voice to be “authoritative, trusted and impartial”. Yet its good intentions are undermined by an impending muddle on problem gambling prevalence rates… In a little over a week, the NHS will publish Part Two of its Health Survey for England 2021 – a dataset that includes estimates of …
Read More »Tim Miller: UKGC consultations will not reopen White Paper debates
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has updated stakeholders on its plans following the publication of the Gambling Act review White Paper, outlining that the results of its consultations should be due by the end of the summer. Last week’s recommendations published by the DCMS put forward a number of recommended changes for UK gambling’s regulatory framework. However, the clarity stakeholders …
Read More »Gambling White Paper lands on RET levy, ombudsman, age restrictions and affordability
After 28 months in development and overseen by the tenure of three Prime Ministers, three Secretaries of State and six junior Ministers, the Gambling Act review White Paper has finally been released this afternoon. The White Paper sees the Conservative government fulfil a 2019 manifesto pledge made by PM Boris Johnson to overhaul the gambling sector by replacing its “analogue …
Read More »Gambling review ‘will not get in the way of the majority of people who want to have a flutter’
The government review of the UK’s gambling laws appears unlikely to spring any surprises when it is finally published today, if an article in The Times written by the minister in charge today is anything to go by. One of the biggest changes is the imposition of stake limits for online slots for the first time, with younger players limited to …
Read More »Winning Post: UK Gambling… The Start of the End Game
As the end of April dawns, UK gambling’s purgatory may soon be over. Regulus Partners reflects on the winding journey of the Gambling Review and how its original mandate was altered by backdrop of chaos across the government’s ranks. After more false dawns than the Carnival of Las Palmas, it seems that the publication of the Government’s White Paper on …
Read More »Premier League clubs agree to end betting shirt sponsorships
Premier League clubs have taken a significant step to reduce the coverage of gambling sponsorships by unanimously agreeing to remove gambling brands from the front of their matchday shirts. The anticipated move makes the Premier League the first UK professional sports league to voluntarily implement such a measure phasing out betting sponsorships. The decision comes after an extensive consultation process …
Read More »Media eyes on Sunak to call on White Paper’s April conclusion
Speculation mounts across the UK media’s grapevine that April will be the definitive month in which the government publishes the long-overdue White Paper on gambling reforms. Writing in The Sunday Times, long-standing gambling critic Dominic Lawson – son of Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor of the Thatcher government – cited: “I’m told the white paper will at last be published on …
Read More »Winning Post: Gambling Review… Selecting the Facts
A busy month of March concludes with Regulus Partners examining the written responses submitted to DCMS on the Gambling Review’s scope and remit… as it appears that once again, UK Gambling’s future will be settled by ‘selective facts’. Let’s spare a thought for the poor souls who constitute the Select Committee for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The committee has …
Read More »DCMS responses published on White Paper’s scope & remit
The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament has published 91 individual ‘written evidence’ responses submitted to DCMS in relation to the conduct of the Gambling Review. The responses were published on Tuesday, 21 March, providing diverse and conflicting opinions on the current state of UK gambling and its future regulatory approach. DCMS launched its ‘committee inquiry’ on 22 December, 2022, “to …
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