This is the list of documents available for the submission Motion by Councillor Laura Doherty:- "Council acknowledges that Glasgow has long recognised gambling as a public health issue, as set out in the city's 2022-2027 Strategic Plan. A key milestone in this work was the Wellbeing, Empowerment, Community and Citizen Engagement Committee meeting in August 2019 in the Shettleston ward. Council further recognises that it has consistently worked with community groups, campaigners, stakeholders, public bodies, world-leading researchers such as the University of Glasgow Gambling Research Collective, and people with lived experience to address gambling harms, most recently reporting to Committee on 17th April 2025. Council notes that the April 2025 report confirmed that, following the UK Government's announcement of a Gambling Levy, the Chief Executive would write to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and the Minister for Gambling to seek assurances on funding to support a public health approach to reducing gambling harms in Glasgow. The report also reaffirmed Glasgow's position that the UK Government must review the Gambling Act and ensure fair funding for the city. Council records its extreme disappointment that, despite this and previous correspondence on gambling harms, no response has been received from the UK Government. Council condemns this continued failure to engage, noting that Glasgow is disproportionately affected: the city has more bookmakers than anywhere in the UK outside parts of London, and based on national figures, an estimated 1 in 15 residents-around 45,000 people-may have a gambling problem. Council recognises that gambling harms cost the NHS, local authorities and other public services over £1 billion annually. Against this backdrop, and with the gambling industry generating revenues of £16.6 billion a year, the proposed £100 million statutory levy is inadequate. Council believes that the forthcoming UK Autumn Budget should ensure the gambling industry, not the public, bears a fairer share of the cost, and rejects measures that disproportionately burden the poorest communities. Council notes the recent intervention by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has joined the growing calls from public figures, politicians, policy experts and campaigners for tighter regulation and higher taxation of the gambling industry. Council recognises that, as Chancellor, Mr Brown oversaw the 2005 Gambling Act, which liberalised gambling laws and enabled the UK market to become one of the largest in the world. While this has created vast profits for the industry, it has also fuelled gambling-related harm and contributed to issues such as child poverty. Council welcomes Mr Brown's change of position but urges current Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, his Cabinet and Labour colleagues-reported by The Times to have accepted over £1 million in donations and gifts from the industry-to sever their ties with gambling interests. Council reaffirms its commitment to tackling gambling harms and instructs the Chief Executive to bring an annual report to the Wellbeing, Empowerment, Community and Citizen Engagement Committee, setting out updated whole-systems actions informed by the Gambling Harms Summit: Standing Strong for a Safer Scotland. Council further instructs the Chief Executive to again write to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and the Minister for Gambling, highlighting: - the lack of response to previous correspondence and the Council's motion of 22 June 2023 calling for gambling law reform, including recognition of Scottish anomalies and local powers; - the case for properly taxing the gambling industry in the Autumn 2025 budget; - and the need for the UK Treasury to design and deliver fair and proportionate funding for local authorities, particularly for communities most affected by the proliferation of "environmental bads" such as gambling, which are fuelled by and fuel poverty; and - Glasgow's proven track record in whole-systems work with researchers, stakeholders and people with lived experience, which uniquely positions the city to develop a UK Centre of Excellence for addressing gambling harms-funding research, education and treatment.".

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