The UK government is reportedly considering procedural moves to ensure its fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBT) stake cut proceeds according to plan.

On Monday, Bloomberg quoted anonymous sources who claimed the Tory government would implement the Autumn Budget 2018 using a statutory instrument, which would prevent parliamentary opponents from introducing budget amendments to achieve a swifter timeline for cuts to the maximum stake on FOBTs.

Last week, Chancellor Philip Hammond released his budget, which called for the FOBT stake cut from its current £100 to £2 by October 2019. Sports Minister Tracey Crouch, who expected the cut to be imposed in April 2019, submitted her resignation a few days later to register her displeasure.

Hammond attempted to strike a philosophical stance in employing parliamentary trickery to pass the budget, arguing that, while it was the government’s job to propose budgets to parliament, “it’s not our constitutional tradition that parliament line-by-line amends the budget.”