According to a few days after the prime minister’s plans to increase taxes on betting and the game industry, about 1.4 million adults in the UK are experiencing gambling problems a few days later.
According to the annual survey of the gambling committee, 2.7%of adults have more than eight scores for the severity index, which is a widely accepted measurement that analyzes the negative results of the bet.
Over the past few years, Watch Dock has warned of the outside of the population. However, when deciding on a committee on the conflict process with the regulatory sector, the advice was abolished after analyzing the methodology of statistical experts.
In other words, more than 19,000 polls can now be used to estimate the total number of gambling problems nationwide. 1.4 millionOr Birmingham’s population or higher.
The data released by the committee also showed a higher percentage of gambling ratios in some gambling, such as some gambling and sports such as slot machines and slot machines.
The gambling committee’s evaluation said on Thursday that Rachel Reeves plans to raise taxes on this sector in the fall budget. She said at the event held at the Labor Conference on Monday that there was an example of a bookmaker and an online casino “paying more money.”
Gordon Brown demanded an increase of up to £ 3 billion to pay for the release of the two -child benefit cap paid by the gambling company. The former prime minister’s plan reverses the phone of Thinktanks, including the Social Market Foundation and the Research Institute for Public Policy. Industry sources are expected to increase taxes to a smaller amount than Brown’s pursuit.
A new estimation of the size of the problem is likely to be captivated by the Treasury’s thoughts on the economic advantage of the industry, which pays billions of dollars of taxes and hires thousands of employees. Critics say that gambling draws the economy through a fruit that loses £ 11.5 billion a year.
2.7%of the committee’s second gambling survey, which is currently a selected gold standard of the regulatory agency. We replaced the previous polling format with a much lower 0.4% estimates.
Betting & Gaming Council repeatedly chose GSGB to use much lower numbers in previous surveys.
The spokesman of the BGC said: “More than 22 million people in the UK are enjoying their bets every month, and as you can see today, most people do so safely.
“Our members have been very seriously accepted to protect the player and have voluntarily donated £ 170 million to research, education and treatment programs for the past four years to solve problem gambling for the past four years.
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It said that preferred 0.4%of the figures and 2.7%of the regulatory agencies “reflect other methodologies.”
Andrew Rhodes, CEO of the Gambling Committee, said: “This year’s results deepen their understanding of the results of gambling and provide important insights to dangerous profiles among the most frequent gambling people.
The committee also published a report that identifies the so -called sports betting in the so -called theater. Here, customers can bet on the trivial aspects of the game as a particular problem.
Researchers at the University of Glasgow have found that those who bet at least once a week in the last four weeks are more likely to score more than eight points on a problem gambling.
The only product with a higher score was the High Street slot machine. In recent months, they have raised more and more concerns among politicians, and have plans to give local authorities to prevent the opening of new places.
