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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

Introduction to the organisation

The Gambling Commission is an independent non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) (opens in new tab). We regulate the individuals and businesses that provide gambling in Great Britain. We are responsible for issuing gambling operating licences for businesses and personal gambling licences for key individuals.

We are also responsible for awarding the licence and regulating the operator of the National Lottery.

The Commission exists to make gambling safer, fairer and crime free. We do this by licensing and regulating in the public interest and providing advice and guidance.

There are 2 main pieces of legislation that underpin our work:

• the Gambling Act 2005 (as amended) which sets the framework for the regulation of gambling in Great Britain
• the National Lottery etc. Act 1993 which sets out the framework within which we regulate the National Lottery.

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Last updated: 15 October 2025

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