White Paper uncertainty: The RET debate at Conservative conference

Gambling issues may have been overshadowed by HS2, the smoking age, immigration, trans rights and Penny Mordaunt’s impression of the King of Sparta, but the industry did get a mention at the Conservative Party conference.

The industry got more than a mention in fact, as it was actually the subject of a panel on Day Three of the conference titled “The Gambling White Paper: Implications for Treatment’. As the title suggests, the panel examined the Gambling Act review White Paper, one of the 2019 election pledges of the Conservative Party.

After being promised four years ago and commencing two years ago, and being overseen by no less than nine Ministers – both Secretaries of State and Parliamentary Undersecretaries – the White Paper was finally published in April, with a key and highly-anticipated recommendation being a mandatory research, education and treatment (RET) levy.

Speaking on the panel in Manchester this week, Dr Jane Rigbye, CEO of Ygam, asserted to assembled MPs and journa..

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