The Mail Online report:

Betting websites are accessed hundreds of thousands of times a year from parliamentary computers used by MPs, peers and their staff.

In just one month bet365.com was clicked on 16,986 from computers used by members of the Houses of Parliament and their employees.

Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act showed gambling sites were opened almost 700,000 times – or 1.3 times a minute.

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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.