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 8: Proposal to discontinue collecting monthly non-remote casino drop and win data
Proposal
We proposed to stop collecting monthly casino drop and win data from non-remote casino licensees; and to stop producing our monthly 'Casino Drop & Win' publication. This data is provided to us on a voluntary basis and, while showing casino drop and win data monthly, duplicates data we collect via regulatory returns on a quarterly basis.
Consultation question
Question 2.8. Do you agree with the proposal?
Respondents' views
This proposal was well supported by the wider industry but opposed by non-remote casino licensees. Those who wanted casino drop and win data collection and reporting to continue stated that they used it for commercial purposes (for example calculating market share).
Operators offered to work with us to improve the efficiency of casino drop and win data collection or alternative collection approaches. They also suggested that eServices could be modified so that drop and win figures for regulatory returns could be entered monthly in lieu of quarterly returns.
Our position
We have reviewed our casino drop and win reporting requirements and concluded that the data non-remote casino licensees supply us on a quarterly basis, through regulatory returns, is sufficient to meet our regulatory needs.
We consider it disproportionate and burdensome for us to continue to ask non-remote casino operators for monthly data which we no longer need. It is also anomalous that we collect and publish monthly data for the non-remote casino sector (which represents about 7 percent of total industry Gross Gambling Yield (GGY)) but do not do this for other sectors.
Further to this, as casino drop and win reporting is a voluntary arrangement, the quality of the data varies as the number of participating casinos differs each month.
Currently, we do not intend to explore alternative collection arrangements for non-remote casino data (such as modifications to our eServices portal) as this investment would be uneconomical, given that we do not require monthly data from casinos to carry out our work.
We will continue to publish casino financial data from regulatory returns in our industry statistics publications, including breaking this down by quarterly periods.
Not collecting and reporting casino drop and win data for non-remote casinos will allow us to use our limited resources to improve the quality of the other data sets we publish.
Proposal 7: Improve our digital service for regulatory returns collection (eServices) Next section
Proposal 9: Industry Statistics - review of user requirements
Last updated: 16 March 2023
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