Problem Gambling

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:03 pm on 22 May 2018.

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Photo of David Lloyd David Lloyd Plaid Cymru 2:03, 22 May 2018

Further to the questions and answers so far, a 2016 report published by the Institute for Public Policy Research suggests that problem gambling costs the Welsh Government between £40 million and £70 million every year. Since gambling and advertising are reserved powers, you can't be proactive on gambling, you can only react to the problems. So, for clarity, and following what you said to Mick Antoniw, why don't you demand that Westminster gives us the powers we need to minimise the financial cost, but more importantly the human cost, of problem gambling?