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38 DEAN HARDING CROWN DIRECT
Shipley MP calls fo ‘bureaucratic nigh
PARLIAMENT
According to Philip Davies, the current funding structu long enough to prove itself and isn’t working.
Philip Davies, Tory MP for Ship-
ley, has spoken out in Parlia- ment this week about the subject of problem gambling. Giving evi- dence at a special session in West- minster Hall on Tuesday, he addressed a number of points before the Minister responsible for gambling, John Penrose, including the positive role that gambling plays and the willing- ness of the industry to take a more leading role in how fund- ing is administered. A fair segment of Davies’
address, however, involved a stinging assessment on the cur- rent set-up of funding adminis- tration and the roles played by the Responsible Gambling Strat- egy Board (RGSB), Responsible Gambling Fund (RGF) and GREaT Foundation, citing the process as a “bureaucratic night- mare”.
He told the Committee: “Per- haps the Minister could explain
why we need all of these. Why can’t the body that raises the money be trusted to allocate the money? Not to mention the cost. The RGSB costs around £250,000 a year just to run, which clearly does not give any benefit to those suffering from problem gambling.” He added: “At a time when
there is more money than ever available - a target of £6m this year; £7m next year - the industry is seeing more and more of that money swept up into a burgeon- ing bureaucracy. In particular, the RGF is crippling frontline serv- ices, which is where the money is needed most. In 2009 and 2010, the RGF spent almost half a mil- lion pounds on staff costs and overheads, including £51,000 on consultancy. And even more interesting, for the year 2010/11, these costs are estimated to have risen by 10 per cent.” Davies warned: “In an age of
Manning leaves a seaside IN MEMORIUM I
t is with regret that Coinslot reports the death of the well- known and widely respected Felixstowe arcade operator Charles Manning of Manning’s Amusements. He passed away peacefully on May 12 after bat- tling cancer. He was aged 66 years. Manning operated the resort’s Sea Road arcade which had been taken over by his father, Charles Snr, from Billy Butlin back in 1945. He had been due to be nominated as president of Felixstowe’s Chamber of Trade and Com- merce this week in recognition of his long service and commit-
THE INDUSTRY HAS LOST ANOTHER GREAT NAME WITH THE PASSING AWAY OF CHARLES MANNING
ment to the seaside town. Paying tribute, his wife Sarah
told press: “He was a wonderful, loving, caring husband, who dearly loved his boys and he
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