UK Parliamentary Group Call For Daytime Gambling Advert Ban

A UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Gambling-Related Harm (APPG) has asked all television channels to stop the sponsorship of gambling firms on their daytime programmes.

The APPG says that, “Gambling companies are sponsoring programmes which seek to glamorise gambling with the aim of targeting women and young people and encouraging them to gamble.

“We are very concerned that television companies are promoting gambling– we have ourselves seen first-hand the harm and devastation that gambling can cause to young people’s lives, families and communities.”

The move by the APPG which has influence over the current government gambling review but no real power on the decision making has previously called for all gambling advertising to be banned.

Over recent weeks comments from the gambling review tend to point to a ban on gambling advertising when the results are published later in the year.