{"value":{"id":1402017,"askingMemberId":4389,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2022-01-11T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2022-01-17T00:00:00","uin":"101755","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department first received correspondence from the Gambling Commission on its investigation into Football Index.","answeringBodyId":10,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4503,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2022-01-17T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The first piece of correspondence from the Gambling Commission alerting DCMS to the BetIndex Limited case was an email to officials on the 10th of March 2021.</p><p>Since then ministers and officials have had a number of meetings with the Gambling Commission on the case, the independent review, and lessons learnt. Records of ministerial meetings are published quarterly and are available on <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dcms-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-1-january-to-31-march-2021\" target=\"_blank\">gov.uk</a>.</p><p>Officials at the Advertising Standards Authority and DCMS have discussed the Betindex case periodically since the company’s collapse in March 2021, but there has been no written correspondence on it.</p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Football Index","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1402017","method":"GET"}]}