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DCMS concludes consultation on gambling regulation funding

30 June 2026

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has published its consultation response on the funding of the Gambling Commission which took place between January and March this year.

The 2023 White Paper committed to a review of the Commission’s fees to ensure we have the resources to continue improving how we deliver our core responsibilities and the commitments connected to the Gambling Act Review White Paper.

The consultation findings now provide certainty on the Commission’s future income for the coming years.

Licence fees will increase by 25 percent overall, but the specific changes to fees will be different for each type of operating licence. New fee categories will also be introduced for most licences. We therefore strongly encourage operators to read the annexes to the Government’s consultation response to understand how the fee changes impact their business.

Fees for society lotteries will be held at their current levels, and a new system of fees calculation will be implemented for non-remote general betting limited licence holders. Fees for personal licences will increase by a flat 25 percent.

Changes to the fees are subject to the passage of secondary legislation and will take effect on 1 October 2026.

Over the coming weeks, operators will be contacted by the Commission with further details about how this affects them and information about alignment to any new category. The criteria for the revised fee categories are set out in the DCMS consultation response. An operator’s submitted regulatory return data for 2025 to 2026 will be used to determine its new fee category.

For further information about the findings of the consultation you can visit the DCMS consultation response webpage (opens in new tab).

Last updated: 30 June 2026

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