Primer Minister Gordon Brown has announced that during the summer the government will review its gambling policy, which includes cutting off plans for a supercasino in Manchester.
Culture Secretary James Purnell was in charge of asking councils that were awarded licenses for smaller gambling venues if they still wanted them.

“I think you have to have an effective regulatory structure and I wanted to look at the concerns that people had expressed and go through the act methodically to make sure that we had good answers to those worries,” Purnell said about Brown’s decision to reevaluate supercasinos.

In 2005, under Blair’s government, the Parliament passed a law that allowed a single new 54,000-square-feet casino to house 1,250 slot machines with unlimited jackpots. The same law authorized sixteen smaller casinos around the UK. In January 2007, Manchester won government support to build the supercasino, beating Blackpool and London.

In March, the plan to relax gambling rules was rejected by the House of Lords while the House of Commons passed it. It is necessary for both Houses to approve the new legislation before a supercasino can be built. Purnell said the projects for sixteen smaller casinos would be allowed to continue since MPs and peers clearly agree about the subject.