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Request date: 19 September 2024
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Online version: https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/about-us/freedomofinformation/misuse-of-statistics
Please can you supply me with the names of all individuals and organisations that the Gambling Commission has written to in 2024 (to date) in relation to the misuse of official statistics?
Thank you for your request which has been processed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
In your email you have requested the names of all individuals and organisations that the Gambling Commission has written to in 2024 (to date) in relation to the misuse of official statistics.
Section 21 of the FOIA provides that information is exempt where it is reasonably accessible elsewhere. Information from January to 19 June 2024 can be found here: Correspondence to Third Parties re Misuse of Statistics (gamblingcommission.gov.uk)
The Gambling Commission can confirm that the names of all individuals and organisations that the Gambling Commission has written to from 20 June 2024 (to date) in relation to the misuse of official statistics is as follows:
University of Bristol
The Observer
The Guardian
The Daily Mail online
SBC News
Gambling with Lives
Gambling Compliance
Sunday Post
The Critic
YGAM
Thought Leaders
CEGA.org.uk
I newspaper
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