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Home Office: Betting, Gaming and Lotteries (BGL Symbol Series) Files

Catalogue reference: HO 320

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HO 320

Files from the Home Office BGL (Betting, Gaming and Lotteries) series. The Home Office has general responsibility for the regulation of betting, gaming and lotteries, exercised mainly through local authorities, the police, and boards. Many of the...

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Reference

HO 320

Title
Home Office: Betting, Gaming and Lotteries (BGL Symbol Series) Files
Date

1944-1995

Description

Files from the Home Office BGL (Betting, Gaming and Lotteries) series. The Home Office has general responsibility for the regulation of betting, gaming and lotteries, exercised mainly through local authorities, the police, and boards. Many of the responsibilities were generated by the Royal Commission on Betting, Lotteries and Gaming. The files in this series deal mainly with the preparation of legislation.

Arrangement
Arrangement

The papers in this series are arranged by departmental file number. The inclusion of a date before or after a file number (as in 1/23/1(1963)) indicates the year in which the file is supposed to have been created, but often it only indicates the year in which the first subfile was raised on a particular subject.

Related material

Records of the Aglionby Inquiry into the Horserace Totalisator Board in HO 270

Records of the Royal Commission on Betting, Lotteries and Gaming are in HO 335

Records of the Royal Commission on Gambling are in BS 3

Annual reports of the Gaming Board for Great Britain are in HO 224

Records of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors on Lotteries are in PF 305

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

BGL Symbol file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, 2017-2017
  • Home Office, 1782-1782
  • Home Office, General Department, 1953-1986
Physical description

516 file(s)

Access conditions

Open unless otherwise stated

Immediate source of acquisition

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Closure status

Open Document, Open Description

Accruals

Series is accruing

Administrative / biographical background

The Gaming Board for Great Britain closed and was replaced by the Gambling Commission in 2007.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9184/

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Home Office: Betting, Gaming and Lotteries (BGL Symbol Series) Files