PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Gambling: Merseyside (4 June 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many gambling addiction treatment services there are in (a) Merseyside, (b) Wirral and (c) Wallasey constituency; and whether his Department has plans to increase provision of those services.

Asked by:
Dame Angela Eagle (Labour)

Information about gambling addiction treatment services is not held centrally therefore no assessment has been made of the number and range of services. There are a range of services available across England to problem gamblers, details of which can be found on the NHS Choices website at the following link:

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/gambling-addiction/

The national problem gambling clinic, which accepts referrals from all over the United Kingdom, is set within the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. Further information is available at the following link:

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/cnwl-national-problem-gambling-clinic/

Answered by:
Steve Brine (Conservative)
7 June 2018