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Annual Report and Accounts 2022 to 2023
The Gambling Commission's 2022 to 2023 Annual Report and Accounts. For the period 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023.
Operator Implementation and customer behaviour
- Metric
- Operators implement the ban effectively and on-time
- Concern
- If operators did not implement the ban, it would be an outright failure
- Assessment
- We are confident that gambling operators introduced the ban in a timely and effective way
Two principle data sources that have been considered for whether the ban has been effectively implemented are as follows:
- Bank data: A major high street bank has informed us that they observed the volume and value of gambling transactions with credit cards to the gambling merchant code, MCC7995, reduce to a very low level after the ban.
The continuing low-level expenditure can be explained by activities outside the scope of the ban (predominantly lotteries and competitions spending).
- Our information: We have not detected any operator breaches during compliance assessments and have not received any alerts to systemic breaches of the gambling with credit card prohibition.
Last updated: 2 November 2021
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