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Annual Report and Accounts 2021 to 2022

The Gambling Commission's 2021 to 2022 Annual Report and Accounts.

Published
2 September 2022

Last updated
31 August 2022 - Changes

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  1. Contents
  2. Performance report
  3. Who we are

Who we are

The Gambling Commission exists to make gambling fairer and safer

We do that by licensing and regulating in the public interest and providing advice and guidance. We want a fair and safe gambling market where all consumers and the interests of the wider public are protected.

We are an independent non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) (opens in new tab) and license operators and individuals in Britain that provide arcades, gaming machines, betting, lotteries, bingo, remote gambling (online, telephone), casinos and gambling software.

We are also responsible for awarding the licence and regulating the operator of the National Lottery.

There are two main pieces of legislation that underpin our work:

We have 310 employees, most of whom are normally based at our Birmingham office. There are also around 10 employees based in London working on the 4th National Lottery Licence Competition.

Licensing objectives

We regulate in the public interest, as guided by our statutory duties, to:

  • prevent gambling from being a source of crime or disorder, being associated with crime or disorder, or being used to support crime
  • ensure that gambling is conducted in a fair and open way
  • protect children and other vulnerable persons from being harmed or exploited by gambling.

The National Lottery

In respect of the National Lottery, our objectives are to ensure that:

  • every lottery that forms part of the National Lottery is run with all due propriety
  • the interests of every participant in the National Lottery are protected
  • subject to the above two duties, to secure that the net proceeds of the National Lottery are as great as possible.
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