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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if hewill comment on the Government's policy towards Pronto; how this relates to its policy towards gambling on fruit machines; if he will set out the reasons for the differences in policy. - Inc ref to 13 November 1997, Official...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if hewill comment on the Government's policy towards Pronto; how this relates to its policy towards gambling on fruit machines; if he will set out the reasons for the differences in policy. - Inc ref to 13 November 1997, Official...
Asked by
Laurence Robertson
(Conservative)
Answered by
George Howarth
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
14 January 1998
For answer on
20 January 1998
Answered on
20 January 1998
Mr. Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the Government's policy
towards Pronto; how this relates to its policy towards gambling on fruit machines; if he will set out the reasons for the
differences in policy; and if he will make a statement. [23856]
Mr. George Howarth: I set out the Government's policy towards frequent lottery draws in my reply to a Question from my hon. Friend
the Member for Stretford and Urmston (Ms Hughes) on 13 November 1997, Official Report, columns 639-40.
I subsequently published a draft Bill to restrict their frequency on 7 January, inviting interested parties to comment by 30
January.
Successive large scale on-line lottery draws, running in a rapid series through the day and operating simultaneously in a large
number of different outlets, would have many of the characteristics of hard gambling. It is long-standing public policy that the
harder forms of gambling should be confined to premises specially licensed and appropriately controlled for that purpose. The
Government do not wish to see other types of premises become significant gambling venues.
Gaming machines in pubs are restricted to £10 maximum prizes and subject to other strict statutory controls which ensure that they
remain an ancillary facility there.
Subjects
Software; Gambling; Gaming machines; Licensed premises; Lotteries
Date
20 January 1998
Reference
304 c513W;304 c507W; 23856
House
House of Commons