Ministers will unveil plans intended to make gambling safer, following a string of high-profile cases where customers have suffered huge losses or taken their own lives.
Looser restrictions for land-based casinos.
"Light-touch" affordability checks.
It is understood that there has been no decision on limits for stakes on online slot machines games, which are currently unlimited despite carrying some of the highest rates of addiction of any gambling product.
Advertising is not expected to face any new restrictions in the white paper.
In a letter to fellow ministers, the culture secretary, Lucy Frazer, said any drop in industry revenue as a result of the measures "will be the foregone income from people gambling unaffordably," the Times reported.
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As expected, the industry will be subjected to a new mandatory 1% on its "gross gaming yield", effectively revenue, to fund addiction education, treatment and research.
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