Source · Select Committees · Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 23
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Acknowledged
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Develop national strategy with measurable targets to reduce gambling harms post-statutory levy.
Recommendation
We support the proposed governance structure for the statutory levy. However, the Government must ensure that levy funds are clearly ringfenced for the purposes of understanding, preventing, and treating gambling harm. It must also use the levy to improve the integration of gambling treatment services across the NHS and third sector. To these ends, we consider that a new national strategy for reducing gambling harms will be warranted. Following the implementation of the statutory levy, the Levy Board should develop a new national strategy to reduce gambling harms. This strategy should include clear, measurable targets for harm reduction over a defined period.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government welcomes support for the statutory levy's structure and aims for transparent funding for research, prevention, and treatment, prioritising oversight and improved integration of services, with NICE developing clinical guidelines. While welcoming the call for measurable targets, it doesn't explicitly commit to the Levy Board developing a new national strategy with defined targets.
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Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government · verbatim extract
Acknowledged
50. The Government welcomes the Committee’s support for the proposed structure and governance of the statutory levy. As we set out in the consultation, we believe that the statutory levy should aim to provide independent, sustainable funding for research, prevention (broadening out the existing education strand) and treatment, ensuring that it is directed where it is needed most without disproportionately impacting the sustainability of gambling businesses.
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