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Income, Expenditure and Staff Headcount

Request

I am writing to obtain the following information under the freedom of information act. Please provide the following information for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 financial years:

The total income your organisation received from the government in each year.

Your organisation's total expenditure in each year.

Your organisation's total staff headcount in each year.

The year in which your organisation was originally founded.

Response

Thank you for your request which has been processed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).

In your email you have requested:

‘I am writing to obtain the following information under the freedom of information act. Please provide the following information for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 financial years:

The total income your organisation received from the government in each year.

Your organisation's total expenditure in each year.

Your organisation's total staff headcount in each year.

The year in which your organisation was originally founded.’

Section 21 of the FOIA provides that information is exempt where it is reasonably accessible elsewhere. In order to be of assistance, please see the following:

2022-23:

Income and expenditure - Annual Report and Accounts 2022 to 2023 - Performance analysis

Staff headcount - Annual Report and Accounts 2022 to 2023 - Employment statistics for 2022 to 2023 (as at 31 March 2023)

2023-24:

Income and expenditure - Annual report and accounts 2023 to 2024 - Performance analysis

Staff headcount - Annual report and accounts 2023 to 2024 - Employment statistics for 2023 to 2024 (as at 31 March 2024)

The Gambling Commission was set up under the Gambling Act 2005 to regulate commercial gambling in Great Britain. The Gambling Act 2005 came fully into force on 1 September 2007. Further information can be found here: About us - Gambling Commission - GOV.UK (opens in new tab).

Review of the decision

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your Freedom of Information request you are entitled to an internal review of our decision. You should write to FOI Team, Gambling Commission, 4th floor, Victoria Square House, Victoria Square, Birmingham, B2 4BP or by reply to this email. 

Please note, internal review requests should be made within 40 working days of the initial response. Requests made outside this timeframe will not be processed.

If you are not content with the outcome of our review, you may then apply directly to the Information Commissioner (ICO) for a decision. Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have already exhausted the review procedure provided by the Gambling Commission. 

It should be noted that if you wish to raise a complaint with the ICO about the Commission’s handling of your request for information, then you are required to do so within six weeks of receiving your final response or last substantive contact with us.

The ICO can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office (opens in new tab), Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

Information Management Team
Gambling Commission

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