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HANSARDFinancial Risk Checks for GamblingI certainly will not have that challenged.26 Feb 2024HANSARDFinancial Risk Checks for GamblingIt is a pleasure to be able to speak in this debate, and I am grateful to the hon. Member for Neath (Christina Rees) for introducing it. I am even more grateful to the more than…26 Feb 2024HANSARDFinancial Risk Checks for GamblingAbsolutely. Horseracing already has its own legislative framework; it has had it since Churchill introduced the Tote. There is already in law a definition of and a separation of…26 Feb 2024HANSARDFinancial Risk Checks for GamblingThe hon. Gentleman reminds me to draw the House’s attention to my entry in the register. I am lucky to have been strongly supported by those in Newmarket.26 Feb 2024HANSARDFinancial Risk Checks for GamblingIs there not the more specific distinction, which the hon. Gentleman almost drew out, that the placing of a bet and then waiting many minutes as a minimum for a result is…26 Feb 2024HANSARDFinancial Risk Checks for GamblingI have been listening with increasing disappointment to the tone that the hon. Member has taken. Given the importance of tackling problem gambling, does he recognise, like the…26 Feb 2024HANSARDFinancial Risk Checks for GamblingWill that include carving out horseracing in the same way that the national lottery has been carved out? Both of those have the lowest impact in terms of gambling harm and it…26 Feb 2024HANSARDFinancial Risk Checks for GamblingWill the hon. Gentleman give way? I am a former Health Secretary.26 Feb 2024HANSARDFinancial Risk Checks for GamblingI was the Secretary of State who introduced those gambling clinics.26 Feb 2024HANSARDFinancial Risk Checks for GamblingThere was one beforehand. Will the hon. Gentleman address the question of the extent to which we know that those gambling harms are related to betting on horseracing—as opposed to…26 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillOn precisely that point, is there not a further practical addition to my hon. Friend’s argument, which is that overriding the ECHR in this instance, as opposed to following a…17 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesI welcome the fact that the Prime Minister is in the Chamber, opening himself up to democratic scrutiny, but I also welcome the fact that he took the decision to act—took that…15 Jan 2024HANSARDSEND Provision and FundingIt is striking that there is such strong cross-party support for the motion moved by my right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Sir David Davis). I congratulate…11 Jan 2024HANSARD New Dementia TreatmentsI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving me the opportunity to add my voice in support of more research in this area. Is it not the case that, despite improvements, the…11 Jan 2024HANSARD Future of HorseracingThere are significant training programmes already in place in the horseracing industry—for instance, at the British Racing School in my constituency, another British Racing School…25 Oct 2023HANSARD Future of HorseracingI totally agree and could not have put it better myself. That shows the cross-party nature of the work needed to ensure that racing has a bright future, for the reasons the right…25 Oct 2023HANSARD Future of HorseracingI agree that the Home Secretary should sign off on the Migration Advisory Committee’s recommendations; they are based on analysis and fact. If she signs off on them, it shows the…25 Oct 2023HANSARD Future of HorseracingI feel very strongly about this subject, not only because I represent Newmarket but because I had the joy of riding in races at Newmarket. I was the first MP in modern times to…25 Oct 2023HANSARD Future of HorseracingI totally agree. That point is another problem that needs to be addressed, and my hon. Friend is right to raise it. All these problems drive down the amount of money going into…25 Oct 2023HANSARD Future of HorseracingI completely forgot to also draw the Chamber’s attention to my registered interests. I have been kindly supported by many people from across horseracing over many years. They…25 Oct 2023