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Commission urges government to address gambling addiction in new report

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Published on: 02 July 2020

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LNB News 02/07/2020

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Issue Date: 02 July 2020

Published Date: 02 July 2020

Jurisdiction(s): England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales

Article summary

The House of Lords Select Committee on the Social and Economic Impact of the Gambling Industry (the Committee) has published a report in which it sets out recommendations on how to reduce gambling-related harms. The recommendations include the creation, by the Gambling Commission, of a system which would test new games for the potential of harm and consequently not approve those that score too highly, equalisation of the speed of play and spin to ensure the game takes as much time online as at a casino, bookmaker of a bingo hall, creation of a Gambling Ombudsman Service, bringing loot boxes within the remit of gambling legislation and regulation, banning of gambling operators’ adverts on sports teams’ kits and around sport grounds, as well as the opening of 15 new NHS clinics to treat gambling addiction before 2023.

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