Fixed Odds Betting Terminals: My reply to the Association of British Bookmakers

Dear Dirk

Thank you for writing to me recently regarding my contribution to a Westminster Hall debate on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals as well as various other statements I have made about these machines. I note that you wrote to my local paper, the Lancashire Telegraph, so I have taken the courtesy to copy them into this letter. I have to take issue with some of the points you made.


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