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Annual report and accounts 2023 to 2024

The Gambling Commission's 2023 to 2024 Annual report and accounts. For the period 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.

Published
17 October 2024

Last updated
17 October 2024 - Changes

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  2. 4b. Other expenditure

4b. Other expenditure

Other expenditure
Description 2023 to 2024
£ thousands		 2022 to 2023
£ thousands
Accommodation 785 833
Professional fees1 9,561 8,470
Consultancy costs2 88 189
External legal fees3 354 7,332
Travelling and subsistence 242 143
Agency staff 565 102
Other staff costs 199 136
Recruitment, training and development 778 303
Office services 1,879 1,631
External audit fee4 140 106
Internal audit costs 193 128
Research costs5 1,124 1,407
Other costs 105 207
Other expenditure 16,013 20,987
Finance costs6 50 10
Finance expense7 29 20
Corporation tax8 177 87
Total other expenditure 16,269 21,104

References

1 Professional fees totalling £9.56 million (2022 to 2023 £8.47 million). £9.20 million relates to increased costs for the National Lottery Competition for ongoing project costs, of which £9.18 million relates to Transition costs, £20,000 for other Professional Fees.

2 Consultancy costs totalling £90,000 (2022 to 2023 £190,000), £10,000 relates to costs for the National Lottery. Decrease compared to 2022 to 2023 due to a contract with Rothchild concluding in 2022.

3 Legal costs totalling £350,000, which includes legal costs of £4.38 million related to ongoing litigation costs for the National Lottery Competition less recovery of legal costs of £4.475 million (2022 to 2023 £7.33 million). £2.94 million was spent with Hogan Lovells International LLP and £1.29 million with Capital Law LLP.

4 The external audit fee of £140,000 represents the cost of the audit of the accounts carried out by NAO. No non-audit work was undertaken by the NAO during the year. The external audit fee for 2023 to 2024 is £95,000 (2022 to 2023 £106,000). Costs includes £45,000 for additional fees relating to the 2022 to 2023 audit.

5 Research costs includes costs associated with prevalence studies into gambling and £724,000 with NatCen for Gambling Survey – Research pilot. This totalled £1.124 million in 2023 to 2024 (2022 to 2023 £1.407 million). This also includes National Lottery research costs totalling £113,000 in 2023 to 2024 (2022 to 2023 £114,000).

6 Finance costs of £50,000 (2022 to 2023 £10,000) relate to Interest on lease liabilities. 2022 to 2023 includes a credit of £56,000 due to the Bloomsbury lease which ended in November 2022, comparatively reducing this compared to 2023 to 2024.

7 Finance expense of £29,000 (2022 to 2023 £20,000) relating to the unwinding of discounts of provisions (see note 13, Provisions and Charges).

8 Corporation tax expense of £177,000 (2022 to 2023 £87,000) relating to tax on interest receivable (see note 5b, Gambling Act 2005 income recognised). Interest received on fee income has significantly increased during 2023 to 2024 due to the increases in Bank of England rates during the year.

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