Extract from Westminster Hall debate on Online Gambling Protection - Mar 12
Wednesday, 13 March 2019 08:37
Richard Graham (Gloucester) (Con):...That brings me to other
measures to protect vulnerable gamblers—those who are most prone to
addiction and least likely to be able to afford it. Like users of
fixed-odds betting terminals, many online gamblers simply cannot
afford their losses, as colleagues have said. Can we not build on
Monzo and Barclaycard’s encouraging start of allowing gamblers to
put blocks on their debit cards against payments to gambling
companies? The regulator is working well...Request free trial
(Gloucester)
(Con):...That brings me to other measures to protect
vulnerable gamblers—those who are most prone to addiction and least
likely to be able to afford it. Like users of fixed-odds betting
terminals, many online gamblers simply cannot afford their losses,
as colleagues have said. Can we not build on Monzo and
Barclaycard’s encouraging start of allowing gamblers to put blocks
on their debit cards against payments to gambling companies? The
regulator is working well on the issue with financial industry
bodies and financial services, and the Money and Mental Health
Policy Institute is also playing a part. I encourage those
organisations and the Minister to take the policy forward and get
all banks to offer it as soon as possible...
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