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 5: Enhance the operational information section of regulatory returns with more consumer and safer gambling questions
Proposal
We proposed to add a range of new operational information questions to regulatory returns focusing on consumers and safer gambling. We received a high number of comments on this question and we need more time to evaluate the responses. For that reason, our response to Consultation question 2.5 will be published in a separate document, the publication of which will follow this consultation response.
Consultation question
Question 2.5. Do you have any comments on our proposals for the new and modified regulatory returns questions?
Proposal 4: Remove the requirement for gambling software licence holders to report individual gambling software titles Next section
Proposal 6: Link the requirement for licensees to submit quarterly or annual returns to the aggregate maximum GGY permitted by all their licences
Last updated: 16 March 2023
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