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Gambling

Volume 492: debated on Thursday 14 May 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the results were of the Gambling Commission’s mystery shopping exercises for 2008. (274773)

To ensure that all remote gambling operators take steps to prevent under 18s from gambling via the internet, the Gambling Commission undertakes a rolling programme of mystery shopping exercises. While their initial focus was on UK-licensed operators, the Commission has recently extended these exercises to look at a number of websites licensed overseas but accessible to UK residents, including those in EEA states and Gibraltar as well as those on the ‘whitelist’. Further details of those exercises will be published as soon as practicable, and in the Commission’s annual report.