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Reference:
2025/1805
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Question by:
Caroline Russell
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Meeting date:
05 June 2025
In his 2021 manifesto, the Mayor made a commitment to address harms caused by gambling advertising. He said: “given the devastating way gambling addiction can destroy lives and families, I’ll instruct TfL to bring forward plans to extend the ban to harmful gambling advertisements on the network”. In March 2024, the Health Committee produced a report ‘Gambling Related Harms in London’. Recommendation five said: "The Mayor should bring forward proposals in 2024-25 to ban gambling advertisements on the TfL network.” In the Mayor’s response to this recommendation, he said he is hoping the Government will provide a “national definition of...