Gambling Commission

One of the reasons we’re so proud to launch the Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB) is due to the excellent work our colleagues and partners have done to make the largest survey of its kind as robust, transparent and consistent as possible.  A significant milestone for us came earlier this year after an independent review from Professor Patrick Sturgis of the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Professor Sturgis said: “The new design of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain will significantly enhance the evidence base on patterns and trends in gambling behaviour. With an annual sample size of 20,000 individual interviews across the nations and regions of Great Britain, the survey will provide researchers and policy makers with fine-grained and timely data across a broad range of key indicators. Using a push-to-web mixed mode design and random probability sampling from the Postcode Address File, the survey implements state-of-the-art methodology to a very high standard"    We’ll continue to improve on the feedback of experts like Professor Sturgis to ensure the GSGB builds on its strong foundations.  To learn more about the GSGB and read the first annual report, visit our blog site 💻 https://lnkd.in/eDdjfM2b

We’re delighted to share with you our first ever Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB) Annual Report, which has launched today. It’s the biggest survey of its kind in the country, with the most robust, transparent and consistent data collection we’ve ever had from across England, Scotland, and Wales.  Through GSGB we’ll be able to better understand consumer behaviours, as and when they’re happening, giving us the best possible view of how people gamble, their motives and the consequences it has on them as consumers.  Knowing how and why consumers gamble in Great Britain – to the extent GSGB will allow us - gives us the strongest possible foundation to identify trends that’ll enable us to make data-led decisions around future policy and engagement within the sector. As GSGB advances over the coming years, it’ll go a long way to ensuring that gambling remains safer, fairer and crime free in Great Britain, and we can’t wait to share more with you.  Thank you to National Centre for Social Research and University of Glasgow, whose ongoing insight, knowledge, collaboration and expertise has helped us reach this important milestone. To read more about the GSGB, you can read our Director of Research and Statistics, Ben Haden’s blog post on our website 💻 https://lnkd.in/eDdjfM2b

In our latest blog post, our Chief Executive, Andrew Rhodes, talks about our key issues and expectations concerning account withdrawals.   Complaints about withdrawals are proportionately low compared to completed withdrawals across the industry, but it remains the most frequent reason that consumers contact us.   “By improving our understanding of what’s important to consumers, we’ll be better able to direct our resources and future regulatory activity. We’ll continue to support the gambling industry in Britain to better understand where consumer interests lie. In the meantime, it’s imperative that operators review their terms and practices on withdrawals on an ongoing basis, to ensure they’re acting compliantly and are treating their customers fairly.”   To read more about our actions around account withdrawals, go to our blog site 💻 https://lnkd.in/eU62HgZT

From 1 July, all licensees are required, by changes to our Licence Conditions and Code of Practice (LCCP), to submit their regulatory returns on a quarterly basis 📆 In our latest blog post, jason davies, our Data Analytics Manager, talks about how these improvements will synchronise reporting periods for all licensees and make it easier to analyse changes in the market on a much more timely basis. To read about these changes, and what it will mean for licensees, visit our blog site 💻 https://lnkd.in/eMy5c9yk

Today we’ve launched official guidance for our first annual Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB), which is due to be published next week. The GSGB is the largest survey of its kind in the country and uses a brand new, robust and independently endorsed methodology that differs from all of our previous official statistics. This guidance is intended to help everyone interpret these statistics clearly, with transparency and accuracy, giving those who wish to use them an understanding of how they should and shouldn’t be applied. To read the guidance, visit our website 💻 https://lnkd.in/eP3vyDTj #GamblingSurveyForGreatBritain | #GSGB

As the regulator for the National Lottery, we're sending our best wishes to all of our lottery funded Team GB athletes as they head off for the Olympic Games in Paris next week. Good luck from everyone at the Gambling Commission - we're right behind you! 🥇 #TNLAthletes | #Paris2024 | #OlympicGames | Paris 2024 - Comité d'organisation des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de 2024

The second wave of results for our Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB) have been published ✅   Here, we’ve focused on the gambling activities people have taken part in between November 2023 and February 2024, exploring ways people have taken part in gambling, what motivates people to gamble and how they felt about their recent gambling experiences.   Our first annual report on the Gambling Survey for Great Britain will be published on 25 July, combining data collected from our first two waves to give us insight into gambling behaviours from 10,000 participants. In future years, this will increase to 20,000 respondents across four waves in a yearly cycle, giving us a comprehensive overview of the gambling behaviours as from the biggest survey of its kind in Great Britain. Helen Bryce, our Head of Statistics, said: “By combining responses across multiple waves we’ll be able to go into more detail about how responses vary across different population sub-groups, and will also publish more data in the annual report about consequences of gambling.”   To read Helen’s blog post in full, go to our website 💻 https://lnkd.in/dhRKXQUE

Welcome to Lisa Nandy, who we look forward to working alongside as our new Secretary of State for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.    As Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, appoints his team, we'll welcome our incoming ministers and work closely with them in the coming months and years. Together, we'll continue our mission of protecting consumers, meeting the challenges of a growing global industry, and delivering the important work of making gambling safer, fairer and crime-free in Great Britain.

Our team has had a busy week in Malta taking advantage of the island's strategic position in the global gambling market alongside our participation in the #GREF conference.   Andrew Rhodes, Kay Roberts and Jamie Wall visited several GB operators based on the island to discuss strategic and market developments.   As a speaker at the SBC CasinoBeats Summit, Andrew had the invaluable opportunity to engage with the broader industry about the challenges and opportunities surrounding white paper delivery and future market directions.   We caught up with executives from the Curacao Gaming Control Board - Cedric Pietersz, Managing Director and Aideen Shortt, Advisor to the GCB Curaçao – to have very insightful discussions about the ongoing productive developments in their regulatory system. We're excited to work with the new regime to combat illegal gambling and share best practice.   Finally, it was fantastic to meet the new CEO of the Malta Gaming Authority, Charles Mizzi and his team to reaffirm our strong relationship, whilst exploring future collaboration including shadowing and tackling issues in AML, sports betting integrity and illegal gambling.

After our successful re-accreditation as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces earlier this year, we’re excited to be named as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Development – a new list for 2024 highlighting our colleagues’ satisfaction with learning, development opportunities and career progression at work. We believe that giving everyone at the Commission the chance to develop professionally – either in their own work stream or one they want to explore – fosters a positive culture where people can be open and excited about their ambitions. Whether it’s to strengthen an area of improvement, or to become a specialist in a particular skill, nothing should be an obstacle to becoming the best person you can be in your workplace. A huge thank you to our colleagues whose hard work and openness allowed us to achieve this award – this one is for you! 🙌 #GreatPlaceToWork #BestWorkplace