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Private health insurance for staff

Request date
14 May 2026

Outcome
Information not held

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Request

This is an information request relating to private health insurance for staff. Please provide me with the following information for the 2025-26 financial year:

  1. The total amount spent by your organisation on funding or subsidising private healthcare/medical insurance for your staff during the 2025-26 financial year.
  2. A summary or copy of the private healthcare policy/policies currently available to your staff. Please include details regarding the level of cover provided and the eligibility criteria for staff to access this benefit (e.g., whether it is available to all staff, or restricted to certain pay grades or roles).
  3. The total number of staff members who were enrolled in or successfully claimed fromthis private healthcare scheme during the 2025-26 financial year.

Response

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

In your email you have requested the following information for the 2025-26 financial year:

  1. The total amount spent by your organisation on funding or subsidising private healthcare/medical insurance for your staff during the 2025-26 financial year.
  2. A summary or copy of the private healthcare policy/policies currently available to your staff. Please include details regarding the level of cover provided and the eligibility criteria for staff to access this benefit (e.g., whether it is available to all staff, or restricted to certain pay grades or roles).
  3. The total number of staff members who were enrolled in or successfully claimed from this private healthcare scheme during the 2025-26 financial year. I can confirm that the Gambling Commission do not fund or subsidise any private healthcare/medical insurance. As such, there is no information held falling within the scope of your request.

I can confirm that the Gambling Commission do not fund or subsidise any private healthcare/medical insurance. As such, there is no information held falling within the scope of your request.

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 a new tab), Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

Information Management Team
Gambling Commission

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