Evidence Session
Gambling regulation
Tuesday 18 July, 10.00am, Grimond Room, Portcullis House
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee will question academics,
clinicians and charity representatives in the third session of
its inquiry into gambling regulation following the publication of
the Government's Gambling White Paper.
The first panel will consist of leading gambling academics and
the head of the NHS’s Northern Gambling Service. MPs will explore
the witnesses’ views on the White Paper’s proposals for a
statutory levy, including its implications for NHS treatment of
gambling disorders and for academic research on the subject.
Financial risk checks, reforms to the land-based sector and the
implementation of the White Paper are also likely to be
discussed.
The second panel features representatives of Gambling with Lives,
one of the major charities campaigning for gambling reform and
who represent families bereaved by gambling-related suicides. The
cross-party Committee will ask the witnesses about their own work
in the sector and their response to the White Paper. Topics
discussed are likely to include gambling marketing, education
about gambling-related harms, and whether there is sufficient
recognition of the level of harms associated with particular
gambling products.
Witnesses from 10am:
· Professor Heather Wardle,
Professor of Gambling Research and Policy, University of
Glasgow
· Dr Matthew Gaskell,
Consultant Psychologist and Clinical Lead, NHS Northern Gambling
Service
· Dr James Noyes, Senior
Fellow, Social Market Foundation
Witnesses from 11.15am:
· Charles Ritchie MBE,
Co-founder and Co-Chair, Gambling with Lives
· Will Prochaska, Strategy
Director, Gambling with Lives
