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Trust Statement 2024 to 2025

The Gambling Commission's Trust Statement for the period 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025

2 - Revenue

Financial Penalties

Further details of individual financial penalties imposed by the Commission are published on the Gambling Commission’s public register.

Penalties are imposed on operators for breaches of regulatory requirements and vary significantly depending on the severity and nature of the non-compliance.

The year-on-year decrease of £6,277,000 is primarily due to the absence of large-scale enforcement actions in 2024 to 2025, with penalties concentrated among smaller breaches across a broader operator base.

Economic Crime Levy

Economic Crime Levy
2025 2025 2024 2024
ECL Band £ thousand Number of operators £ thousand Number of operators
Small 0 151 (36)1 150
Medium 454 47 479 49
Large 1,408 40 1,296 36
Very large 21.20 20.57 20.07 19.33
Total revenue 500 1 250 1

The levy is charged to operators based on their revenue band classification under the Economic Crime Levy framework.

The overall increase of £373,000 (approximately 19 percent) is primarily attributable to the uplift in the very large band rate from £250,000 to £500,000 effective April 2025. In addition, there was an increase in the number of operators classified in the large band, alongside other minor movements across the remaining bands. The total number of operators subject to the levy increased from 236 in 2024 to 239 in 2025.

References

1 The £36,000 adjustment in the Small ECL band for 2024 reflects a correction by an operator to their 2022 to 2023 self-assessment. The operator originally classified as Large but subsequently revised to Small after removing revenues not attributable to UK turnover.

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