§ MR. CHANNING (Northamptonshire, E.)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he is aware of the increase in devices for evading the laws as to betting, and in inducements to enter into betting transactions by systems of credit accounts and by other contrivances now being scattered through the country; and whether he has considered, and proposes either to lay before Parliament legislation on the subject next Session, or to deal with the matter administratively.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers Douglas.) I am aware that the facilities for all kinds of betting are only too numerous Certain phases of the evil were dealt with in the Report of the recent Select Committee of the House of Lords, and it is a matter which deserves and is receiving careful consideration. I have no special powers of administration with regard to it, and I am not in a position to make a statement as to the prospect of legislation.