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Annual report and accounts 2024 to 2025

The Gambling Commission's 2024 to 2025 annual report and accounts. For the period 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.

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Published
15 October 2025

Last updated
15 October 2025 - Changes

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Contents

• Annual report and accounts 2024 to 2025

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• Foreword
• Performance report
• • Introduction
  • The organisation
  • Financial performance analysis
  • Complaints
  • Sustainability
• Accountability report
• • Overview
  • Corporate governance report
  • Remuneration report
  • Staff report
  • Parliamentary accountability and audit report
  • The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General to the Houses of Parliament
• Financial statements
• • Statement of comprehensive net expenditure
  • Statement of financial position for the year ended 31 March 2025
  • Statement of cash flow for the year ended 31 March 2025
  • Statement of changes in taxpayers' equity for the year ended 31 March 2025
• Notes on the accounts
• • Statement of accounting policies
  • Statement of operating costs by operating segment
  • Expenditure
  • Income cash receipts
  • Property, plant and equipment
  • Right of use assets
  • Intangible assets
  • Financial instruments
  • Cash and cash equivalents
  • Trade and other receivables
  • Trade and other payables
  • Provisions and charges
  • Retirement benefit obligations
  • Lease liabilities
  • Contingent liabilities disclosed under IAS 37
  • Related party transactions
  • Amounts of income to the Consolidated Fund
  • Events after the reporting period
• Appendices
• • Annex A - Key operational data
  • Annex B - Performance by Business Plan Deliverable in 2024 to 2025

3a. Staff costs

Staff costs

Staff costs	2024 to 2025 £ thousands	2023 to 20241 £ thousands
Wages and salaries	20,478	17,768
Social security costs	2,188	1,854
Other pension costs	5,157	4,379
Total	27,823	24,001

One employee left under Voluntary Exit terms during 2024 to 2025. They received payment in lieu of notice of £31,000 (2023 to 2024 £83,000), which was paid in 2024 to 2025, the year of departure.

Wages and salaries include agency costs of £1,235,000, (2023 to 2024 £565,000) and apprenticeship levy costs of £80,000 (2023 to 2024 £70,000). These costs were previously classified under other expenditure.

Further analysis of staff costs is in the Remuneration and Staff Report.

References

¹ Prior year figures have been reclassified to conform with the current year’s presentation. This reclassification aligns with the requirements of the Financial Reporting Manual (FReM).

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Last updated: 15 October 2025

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