The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) will persist in advocating for the government to comprehensively evaluate the implementation of financial risk checks on UK gambling customers.
The demand was underscored by BHA CEO, Julie Harrington, following Monday’s parliamentary debate concerning affordability checks, as proposed by the Gambling Review’s White Paper – a discussion tabled by UK Racing stakeholders.
MPs were implored to abandon the UK Gambling Commission’s (UKGC) endorsed plans to adopt mandatory affordability checks on player accounts that experience a net loss of £125 a month or £500 per year, and establish a further threshold for accounts that incur losses exceeding £1,000 within 24 hours or £2,000 within 90 days.
