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Timeline of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain

This timeline tracks the development of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB) from consultation in 2020, to its launch as our source of official statistics on gambling behaviours in 2023 and its latest outputs and developments.

  1. July 2025

    We hosted the first GSGB Statistics User Group meeting.

    We published our response to the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) review.

  2. June 2025

    We invited stakeholders to join our new GSGB statistics user group which has been established to inform the continued development of the GSGB.

  3. May 2025

    We published the Year 2 (2024) Wave 4 official statistics on gambling participation, covering the period September 2024 to January 2025.

    The OSR published their report: Review of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain (opens in new tab).

    We published findings of new research exploring people’s experiences of gambling consequences. This was the first time the recontact function of the GSGB was used to follow up with survey respondents to ask them to take part in qualitative research.

  4. April 2025

    We hosted a webinar to explain how we are implementing experimental research building on the recommendations from Professor Sturgis’ independent review (opens in new tab) of the GSGB.

  5. March 2025

    Our blog post published on International Women’s Day explores findings from the Gambling Survey for Great Britain to better understand how women participate in gambling, and what the consequences (both positive and negative) look like for them.

  6. February 2025

    We published the Year 2 (2024) Wave 3 official statistics on gambling participation, covering the period July 2024 to October 2024

    The second deep dive report from the GSGB is published, exploring the relationship between gambling activities and Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) scores.

    We published updated guidance on using official statistics from the GSGB to make the information clearer and provide more examples.

    We also published a log of requested corrections.

  7. January 2025

    Data collection began on new questions in the GSGB developed in collaboration with the Bingo Association. The questions will give better insight into participation in Bingo and validate findings against industry data.

    We published the first of two deep dive reports building on data and findings from the GSGB. This report investigates the relationship between reasons for gambling and different gambling activities.

  8. December 2024

    We published the Year 2 (2024) Wave 2 official statistics on gambling participation,covering the period April 2024 to July 2024.

  9. September 2024

    We published the Year 2 (2024) Wave 1 official statistics on gambling participation,covering the period January 2024 to April 2024.

  10. July 2024

    We published the first Annual Report of the GSGB.

    We also published Guidance on using statistics from the Gambling Survey for Great Britain.

  11. June 2024

    We published the second wave of official statistics on gambling participation from the GSGB.

  12. April 2024

    We published a blog about our work to improve our understanding of gambling-related harm and vulnerability, through the development of new questions which form part of the GSGB.

  13. February 2024

    We published the first wave of official statistics on gambling participation from the GSGB.

    We removed the ‘in development’ label from our official statistics on gambling behaviours collected via the GSGB. We published a paper to explain why we have removed the ‘in development’ label from the statistics.

    An independent review of the GSGB has been published by Professor Patrick Sturgis from the London School of Economics.

    We also published a news article about the report, Independent assessment endorses Gambling Survey for Great Britain.

  14. November 2023

    We released data from Step 3, the final step in our experimental stage of this project to improve the way we collect data on adult gambling behaviours.

    We also published qualitative research to support the development of new survey questions to understand gambling-related harm.

    We published a blog on the Gambling Survey for Great Britain Experimental data release.

  15. July 2023

    We started the fieldwork for the official statistics. Fieldwork will last until end of October 2023, with results published Spring 2024.

    We hosted three engagement panel workshops with academics, representatives from industry and those with lived experience to provide stakeholders with an update on the project and discuss next steps.

    We published a blog about the Gambling Survey for Great Britain: Stakeholder engagement groups progress update.

  16. May 2023

    We published a blog about measuring the prevalence of problem gambling. The blog discusses the measurement of problem gambling rates and our approach to this going forward.

  17. April 2023

    We published a report written by NatCen which outlines the findings from the experimental statistics phase to date.

    We published a blog summarising the findings we shared with stakeholders at the Evidence Conference about the experimental report and the feedback that stakeholders gave us.

  18. October 2022

    We published a blog announcing the start of the experimental statistics phase. The blog describes what we'll be doing in the experimental stage of the project.

    We published an update on the additional work commissioned to develop survey questions on gambling-related harm.

  19. May 2022

    We held three engagement panel workshops with academics, representatives from industry and those with lived experience to share the findings from the pilot survey.

    We published the pilot report to evaluate the impact of the methodology.

    We published a blog summarising the findings from the pilot survey and outlining our next steps in the project.

  20. April 2022

    Pilot report to evaluate the impact of the methodology change due to be published.

  21. February 2022

    We published the report on stakeholder engagement.

  22. January 2022

    We started the fieldwork for pilot survey.

  23. November 2021

    We published a blog regarding the outcome of stakeholder engagement workshops and to invite others to take part in a survey asking for their views on the future research.

    We held three engagement panel workshops with academics, representatives from Industry and those with lived experienced to inform the pilot stage of the project.

  24. October 2021

    We announced that we have appointed NatCen Social Research and University of Glasgow to lead the pilot phase of the methodology pilot.

  25. July 2021

    We issued an invitation to tender via the Research Marketplace to find a suitable supplier to undertake a pilot methodology in 2021 to 2022. Consultation respondents updated via Citizen Space.

  26. June 2021

    We published the outcome of our gambling participation and problem gambling prevalence statistics consultation.

  27. December 2020 to February 2021

    We launched a consultation on proposals to change the way we collect adult gambling participation and problem gambling prevalence statistics.

Last updated: 5 August 2025

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