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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

Income

Our total income from fees and other sources was £27.88 million for the year (£26.18 million for 2023 to 2024). This figure does not include the £29.14 million (2023 to 2024, £14.44 million) of Grant-In-Aid (GIA) funding in respect of the National Lottery functions which is transferred directly to reserves.

Our fee income for the year was made up of the following:

• operator application fee income £1.47 million (2023 to 2024, £1.21 million)
• fees for personal licences £0.75 million (2023 to 2024, £0.75 million)
• operator annual licence fees £25.22 million (2023 to 2024, £23.86 million)
• miscellaneous income of £0.44 million (2023 to 2024, £0.36 million).

Total fee income has been analysed by industry sector in the following table.

Annual operator fee income by sector 2024 to 2025

Annual operator fee income by sector 2024 to 2025

Sector	Income (percentage)
Betting	32%
Casino	30%
Machines	22%
Lotteries	6%
Arcades	5%
Bingo	4%

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Last updated: 15 October 2025

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