Consultation response
Participation and prevalence research
From December 2020 to February 2021 we consulted on the proposals to change how we collect adult gambling participation and problem gambling prevalence statistics.
Contents
- Executive summary - participation and prevalence research
- Introduction - participation and prevalence research
- Summary of responses - participation and prevalence research
- Introduction to summary of responses
- Proposal 1: Single survey for Great Britain
- Proposal 2: Consolidation of current surveys
- Proposal 3: Participation questions
- Proposal 4: Frequency and turnaround time
- Proposal 5: Explore more future proof methods
- Proposal 6: Survey pilot
- Annex A: List of consultation responses
Annex A: List of consultation responses
We received 62 valid responses to the consultation, from the following categories of respondents:
- Member of the public: 37 responses
- Academia: 7 responses
- Gambling operator: 5 responses
- Charity/not for profit: 3 responses
- Trade association: 2 responses
- Other: 8 responses (including representatives from Ipsos MORI, NatCen, YouGov and the Office for National Statistics)
We received 11 responses which had been submitted in relation to another consultation that was active at the time, these have been removed from the responses considered as part of our consultation response.
The following respondents indicated that they gave consent for their name and organisation to be published to indicate their response to the consultation.
- Roger Nobbs - Member of the public
- Joe Tupman - Member of the public
- Charles Ritchie - Gambling with Lives
- Conor Irving - Member of the public
- Christina Thakor-Rankin - 1710 Gaming Ltd
- Liza Hermansen - CEGO A/S
- John Leake - Member of the public
- Philip Ellison - Member of the public
- Keith Brown - Member of the public
- Alex Guiford - Member of the public
- Jim Orford - University of Birmingham
- Toby Daeche - Member of the public
- Andy Prestidge - Member of the public
- Andrew Fowles - Member of the public
- Gary Anderson - Member of the public
- Stuart Ashman - Member of the public
- Trevor Pitman - Member of the public
- Jamie Benson - Member of the public
- Matt Frith - iBetweb
- Jon Hughes - Member of the public
- Stephen Jones - Member of the public
- Nicola Moss - Market Research Consultancy
- Miles Baron - Bingo Association
- Dr Amy Sweet - GambleAware
- Heather Wardle - University of Glasgow
- Mari Toomse-Smith - Social research organisation
- Fiona Dobbie - University of Edinburgh
- Brian Wallace - Flutter
- Wes Himes - The Betting and Gaming Council
- Lauren Hilton - Tote
- Matt Zarb-Cousin - Clean Up Gambling
- Bradley Canham - Member of the public
- Stephen Russell - Member of the public
- Killian O'Leary - Lancaster University
- Martin Paterson - Member of the public
- Patrick Sturgis - London School of Economics and Political Science
- Michael Driver - Jumbo Interactive
- Gavin Ellison - YouGov
- Charles Lound - Individual researcher working at ONS (not representing departmental views)
- Rachel Volberg - School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Summary of responses - participation and prevalence research
Last updated: 22 June 2021
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