Rebecca Pow, reappointed by Britain’s incoming prime minister, Boris Johnson to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in the U.K., has also been given responsibility to oversee gambling, lotteries and horseracing.
“I am absolutely delighted that the prime minister has re-appointed me as parliamentary under-secretary of state for arts, heritage and tourism,” said Pow, MP for Taunton Deane. “All of these areas are important in the Brexit landscape. I am greatly looking forward to continuing in this role, though, as ever, representing the people of Taunton Deane will remain my top priority.”
Pow and the DCMS team will oversee the regulatory development, implementation and oversight of gambling laws formed by the U.K. Gambling Commission.
Taunton Managing Director Bob Young was pleased by the appointment. “Our local MP is invited with their family to the Christmas meeting every year,” he said. “As long as she has been an MP she has been every year to our Christmas meeting and presented a prize. She is very pro-racing.”
Nigel Adams, MP for Selby & Ainsty (North Yorkshire) has been appointed the new Minister of State for Digital & Sports. Adams will replace current incumbent Mims Davies who was appointed as U.K. Sports & Civic Society Minister last November, replacing Tracey Crouch who resigned from the position following the government’s delay on implementing FOBTs £2 reductions.
