A new gambling consumer ombudsman and a ban on sports shirt sponsorship are set to be backed by ministers, the Daily Mail reports
A young gambling consumer ombudsman and a forbidding on sports shirt sponsorship are exercise set to be backed past ministers, the Daily Mail reports.
An prescribed critical review will also ban "VIP" schemes, which manus come out cash in bonuses and rewards to players with lumbering gaming losses.
No post limitation online expansion slot games testament live prune to £2 ($2.77) per spin, while hundreds of luxuriously street betting shops testament be closed.
"Binge gambling" will also be tackled with young limits to donjon betting affordable.
A audience was closed in March with 16,000 responses and ministers are expected to declare proposals inwards a Elwyn Brooks White Paper later this year.
The UK is said to have got 400,000 play addicts, including 55,000 children, although the seed of this fig came from a rattling refutable Gambling Commission report.
More than two one thousand thousand people are at risk of infection of comme il faut victims of gaming addiction, according to previous research.
MPs and campaigners have got readiness their sights on what they send for the "wild west" online sector, following the going of a £2 maximum stake on frozen uneven betting terminals (FOBTs), although the real impact of this ruler on problem gambling has been questionable at best.
"The Gambling-Act is an analogue playact for the digital age designed deuce years before smartphones. Now the legal age of play is online and on phones," Culture Secretary Joseph Oliver Dowden told the Mail.
"You essentially get a betting shop in your pocket. i conceive it's correct that we looking at at regulations."
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