Gambling: Clinics
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what process NHS specialist gambling treatment clinics are required to follow in order to access funding from the statutory gambling levy; and if he will set out the criteria and decision-making framework used to assess funding allocations to those services.
Answered by Mrs Sharon Hodgson
Regional National Health Service gambling services are commissioned by integrated care boards (ICBs). NHS England will be developing a national commissioning specification during the first half of 2026/27 to ensure consistent, high-quality care across all gambling treatment and support services nationwide. This is ahead of ICBs becoming responsible for commissioning the full gambling harms treatment pathway within each region, inclusive of both NHS and voluntary, community, and social enterprise sector services, from 1 April 2027.
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