There remains just one outstanding affair for the Gambling Review to consider… the introduction of a mandatory research, education and funding (RET) levy.

The issue has become a heated topic of debate over the past year, and as the review White Paper nears publication after close to 26 months in development, MPs have raised it as requiring attention.

According to Rob Davies, Guardian journalist and author of Jackpot: How Gambling took over Britain, over 40 MPs wrote to the government expressing concern about ‘flaws’ in the existing voluntary levy system.

“This is potentially significant because the white paper was thought to be more or less in its final form,” Davies explained on Twitter, citing government/parliamentary sources behind the ‘big gambling rumour’.