Why are children and young people becoming disordered gamblers?

• Parliament TV: Select Committee on the Social and Economic Impact of the Gambling Industry
• Select Committee on the Social and Economic Impact of the Gambling Industry

First panel

Tuesday 3 March in Committee Room 3, Palace of Westminster, by videoconference

At 3.20pm

• Dr Luke Clark, Professor, Department of Psychology and Director, Centre for Gambling Research at the University of British Columbia

Areas of discussion

The Committee's likely questions include:

• What happens in an individual's brain when they gamble;
• Whether some individuals or groups of people are at greater risk of developing disordered gambling; and
• Whether some gambling products are more addictive than others.

Second panel

Tuesday 3 March in Committee Room 3, Palace of Westminster

At 4.20pm

• Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Director, National Problem Gambling Clinic for Children;
• Simone Vibert, Senior Policy and Public Affairs Analyst, The Children's Commissioner's Office;
• Dr David Zendle, Lecturer in Computer Science, University of York; and
• Lee Willows, Founder and Chief Executive, YGAM.

Areas of discussion

Topics the Committee are likely to focus on are:

• The legal definition of gambling, and whether this should be amended to include gaming products such as loot boxes;
• The link, if any, between loot boxes and disordered gambling;
• The link, if any, between early-onset gambling among children and disordered gambling; and
• The impact of gambling advertising on children and young people.

 Further information

• About Parliament: Select committees
• Visiting Parliament: Watch committees