uk gambling
Row over policy led to the resignation of Sports Minister Tracey Crouch.
"I needed to gamble the same way I needed to breathe."
"Problem gambling is Britain's hidden epidemic."
Gambling has the power to generate severely harmful consequences - it’s time we reconsider its untamed promotion
'They are different to gamblers or alcoholics. It’s a younger generation.'
While we are taking gambling addiction off the high streets, we are sending it online
'These machines are a social blight.'
The social cost of addiction including treatment, welfare, housing and criminal justice is as much as £1.2billion a year. Yet despite the scale of the crisis there is just one NHS funded gambling addiction clinic in the whole of the UK
Will it make people spend less money?
A judge called his actions a 'carefully planned and executed sting'.