How effective is the Gambling Act 2005? Committee asks

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• Select Committee on the Social and Economic Impact of the Gambling Industry

Witnesses

Tuesday 3 September in Committee Room 4, Palace of Westminster

At 3.30pm

• Sir Alan Budd GBE, former Chairman, Gambling Review Body
• Dan Waugh, Partner, Regulus Partners

At 4.30pm

• Susanna Fitzgerald QC
• Dr Julia Hörnle, Professor of Internet Law, Queen Mary, University of London

Areas of discussion

Areas the Committee is likely to discuss include:

• Responsibility for preventing problem gambling, and whether the Gambling Act 2005 did enough to prevent problem gambling
• Evaluation of the Gambling Act 2005
• Public money and the treatment of problem gambling
• Gambling advertising
• The use of credit cards for gambling
• The effectiveness of the Gambling Act 2005
• The enforcement of licensing conditions including the obligation of operators to protect customers from gambling harm
• Whether gambling operators in the UK should have a legal duty of care to their customers
• Whether the Gambling Commission has the knowledge and the powers it needs to prevent harmful gambling and to protect people from harmful products
• The exposure of children and vulnerable people to gambling advertising
• Whether regulation and licensing conditions need to be updated

Further information

• About Parliament: Select committees
• Visiting Parliament: Watch committees