Download or read book Pre legislative scrutiny of the draft Gambling Licensing and Advertising Bill written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 80% of online gambling in the UK is conducted with operators which are not licensed here. In December 2012 the Government published a very short draft Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Bill to require overseas gambling operators to obtain a Gambling Commission licence. The overseas-based remote gambling operators generally opposed the Bill, on the grounds it was unnecessary for consumer protection, might drive consumers to cheaper unlicensed operators and was principally intended to bring overseas operators within the UK's tax regime. Much of the UK-based gambling industry, sports bodies and organisations working to combat problem gambling supported the principle of the Bill. Almost all those who gave oral or written evidence to the Committee raised the issue that the enforcement regime would have to be rigorous in order to provide any of the benefits to consumers. The Committee supports the principle that gambling should be regulated on a ’point of consumption' basis. The Committee also notes the concerns raised about taxation of the online industry. The Government stated that the ability to bring all operators serving UK consumers within the tax net is a consequence, but not the prime motivation, of the draft legislation. The Committee notes in this regard that, in setting a tax rate for remote gambling, the Treasury should bear in mind that too high a rate would be liable to drive customers and companies into the unregulated, black market.
Download or read book Draft Gambling Licensing Advertising Bill written by Great Britain: Department for Culture, Media and Sport and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This year's accountability hearings focused on three areas of particular interest: the arrangements for revalidation of doctors, which are to commence on 3 December 2012, and associated matters such as patient involvement and examination of the language competence of doctors; the professional leadership activity undertaken by the GMC in the last year; and the regulation activity undertaken by the GMC, including the establishment of the Medical Practitioner Tribunal Service. The Council is performing effectively in its two roles of defining and applying standards for the medical profession and providing a focus of professional leadership. The outcome of the Law Commission's consultation on professional regulation in the health and care sector, which proposed a formal role for the Health Committee in the accountability structures, is still awaited. Specific concerns included that whilst there has been some progress on the amendment of domestic legislation which restricts the language testing of doctors this is no substitute for the revision of the European legislation which presently prohibits language testing of doctors on a national basis. There have also been continued upward trends in complaints against doctors received by the GMC, and the Committee expects to examine in 2013 the outcomes of further research the GMC has commissioned into these trends. The Committee feels that the present 15-month target for the GMC to complete 90% of its fitness to practise cases should be lowered to 12 months. The Committee also welcomes proposed legislation to enable the GMC's investigatory arm to appeal against decisions made by the MPTS where the outcome of a hearing is disputed
Download or read book Draft Gambling Bill written by Great Britain. Department for Culture, Media and Sport and published by . This book was released on 2003-11-19 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from the report by the Independent Gambling Review Body published in 2001 (Cm 5206, ISBN 010152062X) and the Government's White Paper ("A safe bet for success: modernising Britain's gambling laws", Cm 5397, ISBN 010153972X) published in March 2002, this document explains the Government's proposals for reform of Britain's laws covering gambling policy and practice. It seeks to inform discussion and pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft Gambling Bill (Cm 6014-I, ISBN 0101601425) published separately. Proposals include: the consolidation of all gambling legislation into a single comprehensive Act; the creation of a single national regulator, the Gambling Commission, to regulate commercial gambling; new licensing measures to cover remote technologies for the first time, such as the internet and mobile phones; new measures covering casinos, gaming machines, bingo and racing; and measures to prevent gambling being used for criminal activities and to protect children and other vulnerable persons being exploited. Documents with explanatory notes to the draft Bill (Cm 6014-II, ISBN 0101601433) and the regulatory impact assessment (Cm 6014-III, ISBN 0101601441) are also available separately.
Download or read book Twenty sixth Report of Session 2012 13 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thirty second Report of Session 2012 13 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book House of Commons Sessional Returns HC 1 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On cover and title page: House, committees of the whole House, general committees and select committees. On title page: Returns to orders of the House of Commons dated 14 May 2013 (the Chairman of Ways and Means)
Download or read book HC 637 Pre Appointment Hearing for the Government s Preferred Candidate for Chair of the BBC Trust written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee concludes that the preferred candidate for chair of the BBC Trust, Mrs Rona Fairhead CBE, is a suitable candidate for the post
Download or read book HC 615 Society Lotteries written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Culture, Media, and Sport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society lotteries are intended to be primarily a means of raising money for charities and other good causes. The vast majority are small, often local, and raise sums of money that, though not substantial, are vital for the work of the organisations they support. The Gambling Act 2005 relaxed some of the restrictions on such lotteries. This was not a cause of concern until the recent launch of some larger, 'umbrella' lotteries, advertised nationally, run by commercial operations and giving close to the statutory minimum percentage of the proceeds of ticket sales to the good causes they supported. These are controversial in part because they are alleged to stretch the definition of a society lottery as primarily intended to raise money for good causes, and in part because they are seen by some as direct competitors to the National Lottery. As a result, there have been calls for restrictions to be imposed on large society lotteries, while others have suggested the success of the umbrella lotteries could be replicated elsewhere if regulations on society lotteries were relaxed. The Committee has been guided in its approach by the principle that the regulatory regime governing society lotteries should encourage the maximum return to good causes and, provided that the lottery remains focused on its primary purpose, the licensing regime should be light, including continued exemption from gambling and lottery taxes. Accordingly, the Committee recommends greater differentiation between the regulations applied to the great majority of lotteries, which are small and local, and those applied to larger ones, especially those run on behalf of the good causes by commercial organisations, which tend to return smaller proportions of their funds to the charity than single-cause lotteries.
Download or read book HC 614 Tourism written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Culture, Media, and Sport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tourism sector, a massive conglomeration of diverse businesses and organisations, contributes billions of pounds to the British economy and sustains millions of jobs. Yet its central role in the economic activity and life of the country is not given sufficient recognition. Too often, Government fails to factor tourism into its wider decision-making. The Committee have heard convincing evidence that the sub-national structures for supporting tourism in England were damaged by the abolition of the Regional Development Agencies without putting in place adequate arrangements for tourism promotion. With sufficient resources, the Committee believes VisitEngland is well placed to move more decisively into the organisational vacuum left by the abolition of the Regional Development Agencies and the Regional Tourist Boards. It could better coordinate the disparate efforts of some 200 local Destination Management Organisations, focusing its attention on those with most promise of developing a substantial tourism base. It could be an even better source of advice and training to the many small businesses that typify much of the tourism industry. Working with the National Coastal Tourism Academy in identifying and promulgating best practice, VisitEngland could begin the process of turning round those seaside resorts that have lost their way. The Academy is funded by the Coastal Communities Fund - a source of income for which the Committee shares the Government's enthusiasm.
Download or read book House of Commons Culture Media and Sport Committee Supporting The Creative Economy Volume I HC 674 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report warns that the extraordinary success of the UK's creative industries may be jeopardised by any dilution of intellectual property rights and the failure to tackle online piracy. The Committee also strongly condemns the failure of Google in particular to tackle access of copyright infringing websites through its search engine. Such illegal piracy, combined with proposals arising from the Hargreaves review to introduce copyright exceptions, and a failure to strengthen copyright enforcement as envisaged by the Digital Economy Act 2010, together threaten the livelihoods of the individuals and industries that contribute over £36 billion annually to the UK economy. Also, the Olympics No Marketing Rights scheme is excessively restrictive and is preventing British creative companies from realising the benefits they deserve from the Olympic legacy. The Committee calls for: a central champion of Intellectual Property in Government to promote and protect the interests of UK intellectual property; the maximum penalty for serious online IP theft to be increased to 10 years imprisonment, in line with the punishment for such offences in the physical world; more evidence and scrutiny before any exceptions to copyright such as those suggested by Hargreaves are applied; redoubled efforts to ensure that the video games tax credit is approved by the European Commission and introduced as soon as possible; reforms to the income tax and tax reliefs systems to recognise adequately the freelance nature of much creative work; greater recognition of the importance of arts subjects in the curriculum.
Download or read book House of Commons Culture Media and Sport Committee Nuisance Calls Volume I HC 636 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuisance calls, particularly unwanted marketing calls and text messages, are a bane to millions. A significant underlying feature giving rise to nuisance calls is the unfair processing of personal data, something that is proscribed by the Data Protection Act 1998. The Information Commissioner already has powers to deal with this; he should use them far more. Where regulation fails, technology has a place with a number of useful products available and standard services like caller display can also help. Caller display should be a free service and the Committee regrets BT's decision to charging explicitly for caller display. Some nuisance callers withhold their numbers or hide behind a false one. Nuisance text messages can be simply reported by forwarding them to a dedicated "short code" number (7726) and a similar facility for nuisance calls to landlines is long overdue and would provide useful intelligence to regulators. There should be a single online complaints form. Given that many people do not have internet access, there should also be a single nuisance calls helpline. The legal threshold for the Information Commissioner to take enforcement action under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 must also be lowered. A single nuisance calls regulator might have superficial appeal, but a single point of contact for customers coupled with more effective coordination between regulators - behind the scenes - is both more achievable and desirable. Above all, organisations closer to the source of marketing calls, like the Direct Marketing Association
Download or read book Draft Gambling Bill written by Great Britain. Department for Culture, Media and Sport and published by . This book was released on 2003-11-19 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from the report by the Independent Gambling Review Body published in 2001 (Cm 5206, ISBN 010152062X) and the Government's White Paper ("A safe bet for success: modernising Britain's gambling laws", Cm 5397, ISBN 010153972X) published in March 2002, this document contains explanatory notes regarding the provisions of the draft Gambling Bill (Cm 6014-I, ISBN 0101601425) published in order to inform discussion and pre-legislative scrutiny of the proposals. The draft Bill is in 13 parts and includes provisions for: the consolidation of all gambling legislation into a single comprehensive Act; the creation of a single national regulator, the Gambling Commission, to regulate commercial gambling; new licensing measures to cover remote technologies for the first time, such as the internet and mobile phones; new measures covering casinos, gaming machines, bingo and racing; and measures to prevent gambling being used for criminal activities and to protect children and other vulnerable persons being exploited. Two related documents are also available separately: the regulatory impact assessment (Cm 6014-III, ISBN 0101601441); and a policy explanation outlining the reform proposals (Cm 6014-IV, ISBN 010160145X).
Download or read book Problem Gambling written by F. Gobet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problem gambling is a perennial issue frequently reported in the media. This book is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource on problem gambling research. It describes the state of the art of the subject and presents the latest developments such as computer modelling of gambling behaviour and risk profiles of gambling products.
Download or read book Draft Gambling Bill written by Great Britain. Department for Culture, Media and Sport and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from the report by the Independent Gambling Review Body published in 2001 (Cm 5206, ISBN 010152062X) and the Government's White Paper ("A safe bet for success: modernising Britain's gambling laws", Cm 5397, ISBN 010153972X) published in March 2002, this document sets out the provisions of the draft Gambling Bill in order to inform discussion and pre-legislative scrutiny of the proposals. The draft Bill is in 13 parts and includes provisions for: the consolidation of all gambling legislation into a single comprehensive Act; the creation of a single national regulator, the Gambling Commission, to regulate commercial gambling; new licensing measures to cover remote technologies for the first time, such as the internet and mobile phones; new measures covering casinos, gaming machines, bingo and racing; and measures to prevent gambling being used for criminal activities and to protect children and other vulnerable persons being exploited. Three related documents are available separately: i) explanatory notes to the draft Bill (Cm 6014-II, ISBN 0101601433); ii) the regulatory impact assessment (Cm 6014-III, ISBN 0101601441); and iii) a policy explanation outlining the reform proposals (Cm 6014-IV, ISBN 010160145X).
Download or read book The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue written by Stationery Office (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Gambling Bill written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 2004-11-25 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bill sets out the Government's proposals for comprehensive reform of Britain's gambling laws, with a new regulatory system to govern the provision of all commercial gambling, other than the National Lottery and spread betting. The Bill contains 18 parts and 15 schedules, and includes provisions for: the creation of a single national regulator, the Gambling Commission, and a new licensing regime to cover the full spectrum of commercial gambling activities; the creation of a Gambling Appeals Tribunal to hear appeals against Commission decisions; new licensing measures to cover remote technologies for the first time, such as the internet and mobile phones; new measures covering casinos, gaming machines, bingo and racing; and measures to prevent gambling being used for criminal activities and to protect children and other vulnerable persons being exploited. This Bill follows on from the report by the Independent Gambling Review Body (Cm 5206, ISBN 010152062X) published in July 2001, the Government's White Paper (Cm 5397, ISBN 010153972X) published in March 2002, and the draft Gambling Bill (Cm 6014-I, ISBN 0101601425) published in November 2003 to enable pre-legislative scrutiny by a joint parliamentary committee.
