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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

4a. Gambling Act 2005 income recognised

Fees payable under the Act are identified by income stream and released to the Gambling Commission's Statement of Comprehensive Net Expenditure (SoCNE) in accordance with the Commission's Financial and Accounting Policy.

Recognised fee income is included within the SoCNE as ‘Licence Fee income’.

Gambling Act 2005 fee income recognised in the year is as follows.

Gambling Act 2005 income recognised

Description	2024 to 2025 £ thousands	2023 to 2024 £ thousands
Operator licence applications
Application fees	1,473	1,209
Annual fees	25,224	23,865
Personal licence applications	745	751
Total fee income	27,442	25,825

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Last updated: 15 October 2025

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