There’s a white paper on the gambling industry due out soon, and its’ purpose is to update the 2005 Gambling Act to make it more fit for the modern day industry, as well as to strike a balance between better protecting the vulnerable and over regulating an already tightly governed industry. The Betting and Gaming…
The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) of the United Kingdom has openly praised and voiced its full support for the Government’s new whitepaper surrounding gambling in the country. Michael Gove was set to unveil the Levelling Up scheme on Wednesday, February 2, and it is set to transform the UK by introducing more opportunities and…
A lot has been made in the news this week about a Tory MP being paid what amounts to a full year’s salary for some people, by the Betting and Gaming Council. Laurence Robertson, MP for Tewkesbury, works for 10 hours a month as the BGC’s parliamentary adviser on sport and safer gambling, so this…
Finally some good news on the topic of gambling addiction – problem gambling figures have dropped significantly over the last 12 months or so. This is welcome news indeed after a seemingly never ending stream of news calling out the gambling ‘pandemic’. The quarterly survey was conducted by Yonder Consulting on behalf of the UKGC,…
When Michael Dugher, the chief exec of the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), warned the government they risked “sleep walking into a black market disaster” if regulations were tightened too severely, it created quite a stir. Anti gambling campaigners accused him of exaggerating the risk posed by black market gambling websites in order to influence…
Just when things seemed to be getting back to normal, a second wave of Coronavirus seems to be rearing its ugly head. In response, the Government have come up with a (some might say baffling) 3 Tier Local Lockdown system which will apply stricter rules to areas of the country which are especially exposed to…
