PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Football Pools: Excise Duties (12 February 2019)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to Answer of 29 January 2019 to Question 210669, what would be the net cost to the public purse of reducing the football pools betting duty from 15 to 10 per cent.

Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)

No assessment of the Exchequer impact of reducing the rate of Pool Betting Duty to 10% has been made.

However due to the ease of changing between pools betting and regular betting the Government considers it would put a significant portion of the General Betting Duty receipts at risk – which totalled £572m in 2017-18.

A list of current and future gambling duty rates can be found in Annex A of the Government’s Budget 2018 document.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/754766/Annex_A_rates_and_allowances.pdf

Answered by:
Robert Jenrick (Conservative)
19 February 2019