Consultation response
Changes to information requirements in the LCCP, regulatory returns, official statistics, and related matters
Parts I and II of the consultation response that sets out our position in relation to the information the Gambling Commission requires licensees to provide us.
Contents
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Part 1: Summary of responses - Changes to information requirements for licensees: Consultation Response
- - Proposal 1: Changes to licence condition 13.1.1 (Pool betting)
- - Proposal 2: Changes to licence condition 13.1.2 (Pool betting – football pools)
- - Proposal 3: Changes to licence condition 15.1.1 (reporting suspicion of offences)
- - Proposal 4: Changes to licence condition 15.1.2 (reporting suspicion of offences)
- - Proposal 5: Additional licence condition 15.1.3 (reporting of systematic or organised money lending)
- - Proposal 6: Changes to licence condition 15.2.1 (reporting key events – operator status)
- - Proposal 7: Changes to licence condition 15.2.1 (reporting key events – relevant persons and positions)
- - Proposal 8: Changes to licence condition 15.2.1 (reporting key events – financial events)
- - Proposal 9: Changes to licence condition 15.2.1 (reporting key events - legal or regulatory proceedings or reports)
- - Proposal 10: Changes to licence condition 15.2.1 (reporting key events – gambling facilities)
- - Proposal 11: Changes to licence condition 15.2.2 (other reportable events)
- - Proposal 12: Additional licence condition 15.2.3 (Other reportable events)
- - Proposal 13: Changes to licence condition 15.3.1 (general and regulatory returns)
- - Proposal 14: Changes to code 3.2.1, 3.2.3, 3.2.5 and 3.2.7 (access to gambling by children and young persons)
- - Proposal 15: Changes to social responsibility code provision 6.1.1 (complaints and disputes)
- - Proposal 16: Changes to ordinary code provision 4.2.8 (betting integrity)
- - Proposal 17: Changes to ordinary code provision 8.1.1 (information requirements – ordinary code)
- - Proposal 18: Changes to personal licence conditions
- Part 2: Summary of responses - Changes to information requirements for licensees: Consultation Response
- - Proposal 1: Reduce the amount of data we collect
- - Proposal 2: Remove the requirement for licensees to report premise acquisitions and disposals
- - Proposal 3: Remove the requirement for non-remote casino licenses to report data on a casino-by-casino basis
- - Proposal 4: Remove the requirement for gambling software licence holders to report individual gambling software titles
- - Proposal 5: Enhance the operational information section of regulatory returns with more consumer and safer gambling questions
- - Proposal 6: Link the requirement for licensees to submit quarterly or annual returns to the aggregate maximum GGY permitted by all their licences
- - Proposal 7: Improve our digital service for regulatory returns collection (eServices)
- - Proposal 8: Proposal to discontinue collecting monthly non-remote casino drop and win data
- - Proposal 9: Industry Statistics - review of user requirements
- Annex - Summary of changes to licence conditions and codes of practice
Proposal 4: Remove the requirement for gambling software licence holders to report individual gambling software titles
Proposal
Regulatory returns contain a legacy requirement for gambling software companies to supply details of all their active software titles. This requirement has been superseded by the roll-out of our Games Register, which is now the primary system for the submission of details of games and relevant test reports by gambling software licences holders. Therefore, we proposed to remove software titles collection from regulatory returns.
Consultation question
Question 2.4. Do you agree with the proposal?
Respondents' views
Respondents were generally supportive of the proposal on the basis that it would reduce double reporting.
Our position
Licence holders must submit their games and Random Number Generator (RNG) test results to us via the games register which is part of the eServices digital service (opens in new tab). This digital service was created to make it easier for licensees to report details of remote games to us in bulk. Non-remote games are reported to us via separate arrangements.
While we issued guidance that licensees are to use this service and no longer need to add games titles to regulatory returns, we ran the two systems in parallel to allow time for licensees to transition to the new service.
It is two years since we introduced the Games Register and we no longer consider it necessary to maintain the software titles functionality within regulatory returns.
We will deactivate the gambling software screens within the regulatory returns’ component of eServices on 31 October 2020.
Proposal 3: Remove the requirement for non-remote casino licenses to report data on a casino-by-casino basis Next section
Proposal 5: Enhance the operational information section of regulatory returns with more consumer and safer gambling questions
Last updated: 16 March 2023
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