Report
Annual report and Accounts 2019 to 2020
Making gambling fairer and safer
b) Other expenditure
| 2020 £'000s |
2019 £'000s |
|
|---|---|---|
| Accommodation | 887 | 1,454 |
| Professional fees† | 10,834 | 2,983 |
| Travelling and subsistence | 514 | 615 |
| Contingent labour costs | 822 | 682 |
| Other staff costs | 252 | 188 |
| Recruitment, training and development | 473 | 674 |
| Hospitality | 16 | 16 |
| Office services | 1,821 | 1,527 |
| External audit fee†† | 61 | 58 |
| Internal audit costs | 174 | 141 |
| Amounts payable to Criminal Records Bureau | 101 | 83 |
| Research costs††† | 331 | 795 |
| Finance cost right-of-use | 114 | - |
| Other | 209 | 279 |
| Total other expenditure | 16,609 | 9,495 |
Included within other expenditure are payments made by the Commission during the year under operating leases. IFRS 16 has been implemented within 2019-20 with no changes to comparative data, the prior year figures include rentals under operating leases under IAS17. These may be analysed as follows:
| 2020 £'000s |
2019 £'000s |
|
|---|---|---|
| Land and buildings | 0 | 808 |
| Other | 13 | 10 |
| Total | 13 | 181 |
The above analysis comprises the following figures from the Statement of Comprehensive Net Expenditure and Statement of Changes in Taxpayers Equity.
References
†Professional fees include consultancy costs totalling £1.02m (2018-19 £0), due to increased costs relating to National Lottery Competition.
††The external audit fee represents the cost of the audit of the accounts carried out by KPMG LLP on behalf of NAO. No non audit work was undertaken by KPMG LLP, or NAO during the year. The external audit fee for 2019-20 is £61,000 (2018-19 £57,500).
†††Research costs includes costs associated with prevalence studies into gambling. This totalled £331,271 in 2019-20 (2018-19 £795,143). This also includes National Lottery research costs totalling £52,939 in 2019-20 (2018-19 £247,641).
Last updated: 16 November 2020
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