Liaison Committee (Lords)
17 June 2026
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Liaison Committee (Lords) House of Lords
00:02 - 01:35
Speaker 4
Welcome to today's meeting, which follows up on the work of the Select Committee on Social and Economic Impact of the Gambling Industry. The follow-up inquiry will focus specifically on gambling advertising, marketing and sponsorship. Thank you to James Grimes, Will Prochaska and Dr Raffaello Rossi for attending. The session is open to the public, is broadcast live and is subsequently accessible via the parliamentary website. A verbatim transcript will be taken of the evidence and will be put on the parliamentary website.
A few days after this session, you will be sent a copy of the transcript to check for its accuracy. It will be helpful if you could advise us of any corrections as quickly as possible. If after this evidence session, you wish to clarify any points made during your evidence or have any additional points to make, you are welcome to submit supplementary written evidence to us. As this is the first evidence session in this inquiry, it is a requirement that members of the committee declare their relevant financial interests orally when speaking for the first time, so that they are on record. So given that we've got a lot to get through, I'm going to ask each witness to introduce yourselves briefly please, and then we'll get into the first question.
01:35 - 01:53
Speaker 2
Good morning everyone. My name is James Grimes. I'm director of Chapter One, which is a gambling harm prevention program created by the charity Gambling with Lives, which was set up by and supports families bereaved by gambling suicide. I also founded and led the Big Step campaign to end gambling sponsorship in football, and I have lived experience of a gambling addiction.
01:53 - 02:22
Speaker 5
Good morning. My name is Will Prochaska. I lead something called the Coalition to End Gambling Ads, which is a group of organisations committed to campaign to stop gambling being promoted. We include in our membership 15 councils, including towns and cities such as Blackpool, Sheffield, Bristol and Southampton. We've got the three leading public health institutions in the country in our membership, as well as a range of mental health charities, specialist gambling support services, credit unions, faith groups and sports clubs.
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