Gambling Commission CEO: Not our job to make “moral judgement” on punters’ spend

Gambling Commission CEO: Not our job to make “moral judgement” on punters’ spend

Article brief provided by iGaming Business
  • Marese O'Hagan, iGaming Business
November 28, 2022 4:45 PM
  • Marese O'Hagan, iGaming Business

Gambling Commission CEO Andrew Rhodes has said it is not the regulator’s role to “make a moral judgement” on how much people spend on gambling.

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The comments were made during a speech at the Gambling Commission’s CEO Briefing 2022 on 25 November.

In it, Rhodes laid out plans for how the Gambling Commission is set to operate over the next few years, and specified which elements of the industry are the regulator’s responsibility and which elements are not.

He said that the Gambling Commission was interested in how operators are promoting safer gambling, but not necessarily in judging how much people are spending.