These Detailed Statistics Relating to the Gambling Industry in Great Britain Have Been Collated by the Gambling

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Industry Statistics

April 2010 to March 2015

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Preface

1. These detailed statistics relating to the gambling industry in Great Britain have been collated by the Gambling

Commission (the Commission). The sources are:

• regulatory returns that licensed operators submit
• information provided by operators through correspondence with the Commission

1. This report provides statistics covering the following periods and provides a half-yearly update on the previously published figures:

• 1 April 2010 - 31 March 2011    
• 1 April 2011 - 31 March 2012
• 1 April 2012 - 31 March 2013
• 1 April 2013 - 31 March 2014
• 1 April 2014 - 31 March 2015
• 1 April 2014 - 31 October 2014 (Remote only) as regulated under the Gambling Act 2005.
• 1 November 2014 - 31 March 2015 (New remote) as regulated under the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 which came into force on 1 November 2014. Changes arising from the new legislation mean that the most recent data relating to the remote market cannot be treated as continuous with earlier data. For further details see section on ‘remote betting, bingo and casinos’.

1. More recent data (up to 30 September 2015) are also included where available and we have indicated where this is the case.

1. Figures are either representative of the position at the end of the year concerned, or reflect an average of values for dates falling within each 12 month period; whichever is the case is clearly stated.

1. Operators should have submitted all regulatory returns due for the full year period ending prior to 31 March 2015.  Accordingly those figures are correct as of the date of publication, although they may be subject to further change as a result of overdue returns or where we subsequently identify errors that operators have made in their submissions. Consequently it is not uncommon to see published figures differ across publications for the same time period. The more recent figures are provisional, and therefore subject to amendment within future Industry Statistics publications, because:

1. some of the annual submissions made in the run-up to March 2015 will require estimates (to ease the burden on operators, the Commission has adopted the policy of permitting them to submit returns in line with their individual business reporting cycles – this is covered in more detail within Appendix 1)
2. some returns are subject to outstanding queries with operators.

1. Up to March 2012, premises figures reported in this document were based on licensing authority notifications. Data from this source tended to be incomplete. As a result, from March 2013 onwards, premises figures are based on operators’ most recent regulatory returns. This approach relies solely on operators for information on their premises and provides the most robust premises information to date. Because the source of the data has changed, the figures from 31 March 2013 onwards should be seen as the first points in a new series and should not be compared with the previous data.

1. Headcount data uses the figures detailed on the last return submitted.

1. The information contained in this document covers British terrestrial gambling (betting, bingo, casinos, arcades, gaming machines manufacturers, lotteries). It also covers remote gambling services offered to GB customers – from GB based operators and non GB based operators for Post November 2015 when the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act came into force, and from GB based operators only prior to this date. It does not cover spread betting because the Commission does not regulate this activity.

1. Where possible, we have provided comparator data which is consistent with the rest of this publication, with tables containing data from April 2010-March 2011 to April 2014-March 2015. Please note that in certain cases, as dictated by the complexity of the data conveyed, it has not been possible to provide data from previous periods in this format. In these cases, please follow links to copies of the Gambling Commission Annual Reviews and Annual Reports.  

1. The Commission’s methodology for providing annualised figures based on operators’ returns is included in Appendix 1.

1. Future publications of Industry Statistics may include information which operators have provided voluntarily (for example a split of remote customers by gender or age, the Gross Gambling Yield (GGY^[1]) derived from mobile devices or in-play activity) but we welcome views about the best ways in which to do this or whether indeed this data should form part of Industry Statistics. Please access this through Survey Monkey.

1. The terminology used in this document is explained in Appendix 2.

1. Totals and percentages are calculated from unrounded figures and where appropriate totals are shown in outturn prices are not adjusted for inflation.

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1. Further statistics and information relating to the Commission and its activities are available on our website in the Gambling data and analysis section.

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