Promoting Ethical Engagement in Sports

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport – in the Senedd at 2:11 pm on 4 July 2018.

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Photo of Jenny Rathbone Jenny Rathbone Labour 2:11, 4 July 2018

One of the issues that I'm concerned about, which is a huge ethical issue, is the increasing conjoining of the gambling industry with sport. There's research done by Goldsmiths college in London that shows that gambling logos are on televised matches most of the time. This is deliberately trying to inject into the minds of children that gambling is a part of being a sports fan, and it seems to me that this is wholly reprehensible. Now, the Football Association in England has announced an end to all sponsorship deals with betting companies, but, unfortunately, rugby has yet to kick out gambling from the game. So, what do you think the Welsh Government can do to tackle betting sponsorship in sport, which is making it endemic in the way that big tobacco was in the past?