The UK’s Public Accounts Committee has criticised the government for failing to proactively fund gambling related research that could help to design an effective regulatory response to gambling harms.
The Committee stated in a report released Sunday (June 28) that despite repeated references to the need for evidence based policy-making, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has a limited understanding of gambling harms compared with other public health issues such as alcohol dependency [...]