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Peter Dean get telling off from government for 'hands off qoute.(UK NEWS)(Peter Dean )
GAMBLING Commission airman Peter Dean has been given a dressing down by angry ministers after 'humiliating' the government in an interview in The Times, earlier this month.
Richard Caborn, the Culture Minister, contacted Dean, on the last day of a skiing holiday to make his feelings known.
But hours after the article appeared, Dean repeated his view that the commission should not regulate onerously, in a letter to The Times.
The government is now planning to change the make-up of the commission by introducing at least one member with a specific brief for social responsibility, claims The Times.
In the original article, Dean said that Tessa Jowell, the Culture Secretary, had 'exaggerated' the case for regional casinos to push the Bill through Parliament, which angered ministers.
The government was also annoyed by his suggestions that the Gambling Commission, created in October, will be a 'hands off' regulator which believes regional casinos with million pound slot machines are "not such a big deal."
The Times reports that Caborn made his ...
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