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OSR warns UK gambling survey may overstate participation and harm

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The Office for Statistics Regulation warned that the Gambling Survey for Great Britain may overstate gambling participation and harm, and said its limitations should be clearer in statistical bulletins. The UK Gambling Commission welcomed the review and said improvements were under way; it promised a fuller response by July, before the next survey report in October.

The review may affect how regulators and policymakers interpret the UK’s principal gambling harms survey.

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Lords committee urges UK gambling advertising ban

The House of Lords Liaison Committee urged the UK government to ban gambling advertising. Its follow-up report also called on ministers to drop the aim of growing the licensed industry and return to a policy of tolerating gambling without promoting it. Industry figures and researchers dispute the report’s treatment of survey data, advertising measures and illegal-market risks.

The House of Lords Liaison Committee has urged the government to ban gambling advertising "as soon as practicable" and to abandon its aim of growing the licensed industry, in a follow-up report published on 17 September. The committee said there is "no evidence for the safety of gambling advertising" and that voluntary measures "have not gone far enough". The government has two months to respond.

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