Documents exchanged with the London School of Economics

Request

Thankyou for providing the documents, which I have now had time to review. I have noticed however that several of the emails exchanged between the LSE and the Gambling Commission refer to documents that have not been supplied. These include several versions of a report prepared by Sturgis, Kuha, Howe and Maxineanu (Three Experiments on the Causes of Differences in Estimates of Gambling and Gambling Impacts in General Population Surveys) as well as draft versions of Gambling Commission guidance on use of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain.

Please can you supply me with copies of all of these documents as well as any other documents exchanged between the London School of Economics and the Gambling Commission during the course of 2025?

Response

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

Following a previous request responded to by the Commission (which can be viewed as part of our disclosure log - Correspondence with the London School of Economics) you have referenced that several of the emails exchanged between the LSE and the Gambling Commission refer to documents that have not been supplied. These include several versions of a report prepared by Sturgis, Kuha, Howe and Maxineanu (Three Experiments on the Causes of Differences in Estimates of Gambling and Gambling Impacts in General Population Surveys) as well as draft versions of Gambling Commission guidance on use of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain. In your email you have requested copies of all these documents as well as any other documents exchanged between the London School of Economics and the Gambling Commission during the course of 2025. Please see the attached information falling within the scope of your request.

We have redacted from these documents information relating to identifiable individuals that would constitute personal data under section 40 of the FOIA.

Section 40

The Data Protection Act 2018 requires personal data to be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject. It is the view of the Commission that disclosing the personal information contained within the attached documents would constitute the disclosure of personal data and would contravene this principle.

This information is therefore exempt under section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Where you have requested versions of a report prepared by Sturgis, Kuha, Howe and Maxineanu (Three Experiments on the Causes of Differences in Estimates of Gambling and Gambling Impacts in General Population Surveys); we have previously provided this information in response to a separate FOI request. Section 21 of the FOIA provides that information is exempt where it is reasonably accessible elsewhere, this information can be viewed as part of the Commissions disclosure log – Copies of report by Sturgis, Kuha, Howe and Maxineanu

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