Consultations

Consultation on the national strategy to reduce gambling harms

Status: Open

The current National Responsible Gambling Strategy comes to an end in March 2019 and we are developing a new national strategy to reduce gambling harms working with all the bodies that will be part of delivering the strategy.

Informal consultation on amendments to the protection of customer funds rating system

Status: Open

We require operators to use a ratings system to inform customers how their funds are protected in the event of insolvency. This informal consultation proposes to amend this ratings system.

Proposals to strengthen age and identity verification for online gambling

Status: Closed awaiting responses

Consumers, gambling operators, and members of the public are being invited to voice their opinion on proposed changes aimed at further protecting children and keeping gambling fair and safe.

Transparency to consumers for horse-race pool betting at the end of the exclusive licence

Status: Closed with responses

We propose to extend the existing requirement that currently applies only to pool betting on dog races to also apply to horse-race pool betting

Proposed changes to LCCP linked to the fair and open licensing objective

Status: Closed with responses

This consultation sets out our proposals to make changes to regulations linked to marketing and advertising, unfair terms and complaints and disputes.

Changes to our enforcement strategy for the National Lottery

Status: Closed with responses

In this consultation we propose changes to our current National Lottery enforcement strategy.

Consultation on updates to anti-money laundering guidance for casinos

Status: Closed with responses

The prevention of money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism: Updated guidance for remote and non-remote casinos

Have your say on changes to society lottery codes of practice: putting consumers first

Status: Closed with responses

This consultation sets out our proposals to make changes to codes of practice for society and local authority lottery operators and ELMs

Changes to our enforcement strategy: putting the consumer first

Status: Closed with responses

This consultation sets out our proposals to make changes to our enforcement strategy in order to put more emphasis on consumers who are at the core of our approach to regulation and we expect operators to put them at the core of their businesses too

Regulatory data collection consultation

Status: Closed with responses

This consultation sets out our proposals to change some parts of the information that we require licensed operators to provide to us and gives an opportunity for stakeholders to comment on the proposed changes.

Remote gambling and software technical standards consultation

Status: Closed with responses

We have published our response to the Remote Gambling and Software Technical Standards (RTS) consultation

Virtual currencies, eSports and social gaming – discussion paper

Status: Closed with responses

There are many ways in which individuals and organisations can provide facilities for gambling, or take part in gambling - this discussion paper sets out our current thinking and approach to distinguishing between activities that need to be licensed and activities that do not

Proposals for Gambling Commission fees from April 2017

Status: Closed with responses

There will be fee reductions for around 1,900 operators while fees will be held at their current levels for around 1,000 operators, and around 75 operators will be subject to an increase in fees

Placing digital adverts responsibly

Status: Closed with responses

A supplementary consultation from The prevention of crime associated with gambling consultation

Extending the requirement to assess money laundering risk to the non-remote lottery sector

Status: Closed with responses

A supplementary consultation from The prevention of crime associated with gambling consultation