Staff Wins 2016-2022

Request

As part of the Corporate Governance framework, Gambling Commission employees in a position to influence/may seem to influence policy decisions are required to inform the Commissions Intelligence Lead which gambling operators they gamble with (in relation to remote gambling) and any big wins(over £500).

Please may I request a small amount of the data to this? I would just want the operators names and big wins listed for years 2016-2022. I am only requiring those two sets of data, so redaction shouldn't be needed (as I am not asking for names or job titles, just removing all rows except for operator and value of win is sufficient and should make it very straightforward).

The framework states that the staff affected by this are as follows:

13. You are in a position to influence regulatory decisions if you are a Director or Programme Director or employee in the Intelligence, Licensing, Legal, Compliance and Enforcement functions. Also included are employees working in the ICT department having domain administrator privileges and ICT employees with access to software source code.Depending on their particular responsibilities, other employees may also fall into this category and, if you do, you will be informed of this by your manager.

Response

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

In your email you have referred to the Corporate Governance framework, which states, Gambling Commission employees in a position to influence/may seem to influence policy decisions are required to inform the Commissions Intelligence Lead which gambling operators they gamble with (in relation to remote gambling) and any big wins (over £500). You have requested any operators names and big wins listed for years 2016-2022.

I can confirm the following information is held falling within the scope of your request:

October 2021. Ladbrokes, £605.00

November 2021. Ladbrokes, £ 514.00

March 2022. Skybet, £790.00

Review of the decision

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Information Management Team
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