| Heading: |
Gambling: Licensing |
| Question ID: |
1815246 |
| UIN: |
HL8703 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-23 |
| Asking Member ID: |
214 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Foster of Bath
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Lord Foster of Bath
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what recent assessment they have made of the number of gambling venues operating with bingo licences but effectively operating as adult gaming centres. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-01 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4966 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Twycross
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Twycross
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| Answer text: |
We recognise that, as noted in the Gambling Commission’s 2023 advice to the Gambling Act Review, there are gambling premises which are licensed solely as bingo venues, where gaming machines take up most of the floor space and which can give the appearance... |
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| Answering body ID: |
217 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Culture, Media and Sport |
| Tweeted: |
true |