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These stories come out every week, but I want to point to some recent statistics. In the last couple of days, “File on 4 Investigates” looked at some research from Swansea University on the scale of gambling harms in the military community, among both serving personnel and veterans. It found that, of those surveyed—these were serving people from across the forces— 72% gambled and one-quarter reported some harm. Let us think about our local council or our licensing authority in an area with one or more military installations: we know that it will be forced to allow things through that will do particular harm to people in our forces.