Blog posts
Blog posts from teams across the Gambling Commission.
Posts from the Statistics and research team
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Understanding the Consequences of Gambling: Using Lived Experience to Shape Research
Our Senior Research and Statistics Analyst Amandeep Manku introduces new research developed in collaboration with NatCen and our Lived Experience Advisory Panel, on the the wider range of adverse consequences of gambling.
8 May 2025 - Statistics and research.
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Women and Gambling on International Women’s Day 2025
Our Senior Research and Statistics Analyst Amandeep Manku explores what our Gambling Survey for Great Britain data tells us about women's experiences of gambling.
10 March 2025 - Statistics and research.
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Young people’s experiences of gambling – qualitative research findings
Commission Research and Impact Manager Lauren Cole discusses the findings from our recently published Young People and Gambling Qualitative Research.
3 March 2025 - Statistics and research.
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Measuring the prevalence of problem gambling
Whilst millions of people enjoy gambling safely in Great Britain, we know there are also hundreds of thousands of people who face difficulties when it comes to gambling.
26 May 2023 - Statistics and research.
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Understanding women's experiences of gambling
Today marks International Women’s Day 2022, providing a moment to share what we know about women and gambling.
8 March 2022 - Communications, Statistics and research.
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Our Head of Statistics, Helen Bryce, explores the relationship between gambling activities and Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) scores.
6 February 2025 - Statistics and research.
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Our Head of Statistics, Helen Bryce, talks through the relationship between reasons for gambling and different gambling activities, in light of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain topical report publication.
30 January 2025 - Statistics and research.
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The impact of the World Cup on gambling attitudes and behaviours
With the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand reaching its final week and with England playing in the semi-final today, we thought it was a good time to share some findings about the impact of major sporting events.
16 August 2023 - Statistics and research.
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More than football: A deep dive into Euro 2024 betting
Following on from this summer's UEFA European Football Championship, Commission Research and Statistics Analyst Robyn Brummitt and Research and Impact Manager Caleb Adegbola discuss the impact of the tournament on consumer gambling behaviour.
25 September 2024 - Statistics and research.
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Gambling Survey for Great Britain - Year 2 (2024), Wave 2 results published
Our Head of Statistics, Helen Bryce, talks through recently published data from the Gambling Survey for Great Britain and provides an update on improvements to the design of the survey.
10 December 2024 - Statistics and research.
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New data and updates for the Gambling Survey for Great Britain
Our Director of Research and Statistics Ben Haden discusses the latest wave of participation data for the Gambling Survey for Great Britain and provides an update on the next steps.
19 September 2024 - Statistics and research.
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Gambling Survey for Great Britain - First Annual Report
Our Director of Research and Statistics, Ben Haden, reflects on the publication of the First Annual Report from the Gambling Survey for Great Britain.
25 July 2024 - Statistics and research.
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Making improvements to regulatory returns
Our Data Analytics Manager, Jason Davies, talks through our changes to regulatory returns submissions required by licensees.
17 July 2024 - Statistics and research.
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Gambling Survey for Great Britain – Wave 2 results published
Our Head of Statistics, Helen Bryce, talks through the launch of the second wave of data from the Gambling Survey for Great Britain, and the plans for the future.
10 July 2024 - Statistics and research.
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Making progress on addressing our Evidence Gaps and Priorities
Our Head of Research, Laura Balla, reflects on the first year of our Evidence Gaps and Priorities programme.
11 July 2024 - Statistics and research.
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2022 Young People and Gambling Report – survey improvements explained
Since 2011, we have undertaken the Young People and Gambling Survey, a study of 11 to 16 year olds across Great Britain.
27 October 2022 - Statistics and research.
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Building our evidence base on gambling-related harm and vulnerability
Our Head of Research, Laura Balla, talks through our work to improve our understanding of gambling-related harm and vulnerability, through the development of new questions which form part of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain.
11 April 2024 - Statistics and research.
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Evaluating the impact of the Gambling Act Review
Our head of evidence assurance and evaluation David Taylor, talks through the evaluation thinking ahead of potential changes in connection with the Gambling Act Review.
19 March 2024 - Statistics and research.
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Gambling Survey for Great Britain – Wave 1 results published
Our director of research and statistics, Ben Haden, talks through the launch of the first wave of data from the Gambling Survey for Great Britain, and the plans for the future.
29 February 2024 - Statistics and research.
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Our head of statistics Helen Bryce talks through the data released for the Gambling Survey for Great Britain.
23 November 2023 - Statistics and research.
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Making better use of operator data
Operator data is a rich resource in terms of ensuring how we understand how the market is developing, appreciate how interventions we make are (or aren’t) having an impact and at a fundamental level ensure we charge the right fees and can forecast and manage income and finances.
6 October 2023 - Statistics and research.
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Gambling Survey for Great Britain: Stakeholder engagement groups progress update (July 2023)
Last week we caught up with our three stakeholder engagement groups (Academics and/or Policy, Industry and Lived Experience) to provide an update on the Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB) project.
26 July 2023 - Statistics and research.
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The experimental statistics phase: Gambling participation and prevalence project
The Gambling Commission recently held its first ‘Setting the Evidence Agenda’ Conference on 9 March.
19 April 2023 - Statistics and research.
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Looking forward to the Setting the Evidence Agenda Conference
The Gambling Commission is a people-focused regulator that’s evidence-led. So we need the best data, the best research we can get, in order to do our job and make gambling safer, fairer and crime free here in Great Britain.
2 March 2023 - Statistics and research.
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Help us improve to our statistics
Ben Haden, our Director of Research and Statistics, reflects on some thought-provoking engagement at the start of the pilot phase for our new approach to collecting statistics on gambling participation and those who may experience difficulties with their gambling.
24 November 2021 - Statistics and research.
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Entering the experimental phase: Gambling participation and prevalence project
We have reached the next stage in our project to improve the way we collect data on gambling participation and prevalence of those who experience difficulties or harms through their gambling.
24 October 2022 - Insight, Statistics and research.
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Improving our statistics: Gambling participation and prevalence
Here at the Gambling Commission, we have reached a significant milestone in our project to improve the way we collect data on adult gambling participation and prevalence of those who experience difficulties or harms through their gambling.
24 May 2022 - Statistics and research.
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