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Evening Betting

Volume 201: debated on Monday 16 December 1991

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to permit the opening of off-course bookmakers shops during the evening hours.

We issued a consultation document in October inviting the views of all interested parties on whether licensed betting offices should be open in the evenings and, if so, at what times. The Government will give careful consideration to the views received in response to that document before deciding whether to allow evening opening.