Report
Young People and Gambling 2023: Official statistics
Gambling Commission report produced by Ipsos on young people and their gambling behaviour, attitudes and awareness in 2023.
Contents
- Executive summary
- Young people’s active involvement in gambling
- - Summary
- - Young people's active involvement in gambling
- - Variations in active involvement in gambling
- - Variations in active involvement in types of gambling activities
- - Prevalence of non-problem, at risk or problem gambling
- - Problem gambling by gender
- - Problem gambling by age
- - Problem gambling by ethnicity
- Experience of gambling
- - Summary
- - Overall gambling experience
- - Overall gambling experience in the last 12 months
- - Variations in gambling experience
- The Impact of gambling on young people
- - Summary
- - How gambling impacts on relations with friends and family
- - How gambling makes young people feel
- - The impact of gambling on sleep
- - The impact of gambling on spending
- - The impact of gambling on schoolwork
- - Experience and impact of family members’ gambling
- Online gambling
- - Summary
- - Young people’s active involvement in online gambling
- - Overall experience of online gambling
- - Online gambling using parent's or guardian's accounts
- - Awareness and use of in-game items in video games
- - Awareness and use of virtual money or tokens to bet on sports matches
- National Lottery play
- - Summary
- - Young people’s active involvement with lottery products
- - Wider experience of lottery games
- - Buying a National Lottery draw ticket or scratchcard
- - Who young people are with when playing a National Lottery product
- Games and gaming machines
- - Summary
- - Young people’s active involvement in games and gaming machines
- - Overall experience of games and gaming machines play
- - Who is with young people when they play gaming machines
- - Types of gaming machines
- - Play in an adults-only area
- The Context for gambling participation
- - Summary
- - Setting gambling in the context of other risk-taking behaviours
- - Setting gambling in the context of other activities
- - Reasons why young people gamble
- - Why young people do not gamble
- - Who young people were with when they gambled
- Attitudes towards and exposure to gambling
- - Summary
- - Young people's views on gambling
- - Feeling informed about gambling
- - Being stopped from gambling
- - Young people's exposure to gambling adverts and promotions and frequency of exposure
- - Content of gambling adverts and promotions seen
- - Whether ever prompted to gamble by adverts and promotions
- - Following gambling companies on social media
- Appendices
- List of gambling activities and definitions
Proposal 3: Changes to licence condition 15.1.1 (reporting suspicion of offences)
Proposal
We proposed to amend licence condition 15.1.1 to introduce additional text which will enable us to specify the form and manner of the reporting of suspicion of offences etc. The amendment will align the requirement with other conditions relating to information reporting. This will make our information management more efficient and allow us to act in respect of reported offences more quickly and effectively. The changes will also reinforce the principle that responsibility for meeting the licence condition rests with licensees, not third parties.
Consultation question
Question 1.3. Do you agree with the proposed changes to the licence condition?
Respondents' views
Respondents noted the benefits of a standardised reporting approach; although these were tempered by a concern that any prescribed form or manner for reporting should not be overly burdensome. Several respondents noted that the change would make licensees more responsible for their own reporting of known or suspected offences. Two respondents queried whether it would be permissible for one licensee to provide information on behalf of another licensee within a group.
Some respondents requested that we define the required timescales for reporting known or suspected offences. One respondent queried whether fines would be imposed for late reporting or non-compliance.
Our position
While it is acceptable for one licensee to provide information on behalf of another within a group, ultimate responsibility for the timing and content of the submission rests with the licence holder.
We note the request to define timescales for the submission of known or suspected offences. However, we recognise that, in many instances, licensees will want to undertake due diligence to investigate the nature and scale of a potential breach. We do not, for this reason, think it practical to impose a ‘one size fits all’ time limit on reporting issues of known or suspected offences. Breaches will be dealt with in accordance with the principles contained within our Licensing, compliance and enforcement under the Gambling Act 2005: policy statement (opens in new tab). We have developed a standardised template, in consultation with stakeholders, for reporting known or suspected offences under licence condition 15.1.1. The final version and supporting guidance will be available to licensees prior to the updated licence condition coming into effect.
The following changes to licence condition 15.1.1 will take effect from 31 October 2020.
Final wording of amended licence condition 15.1.1
Licence condition 15.1.1
Reporting suspicion of offences etc - non-betting licences
All operating licences except betting, betting intermediary, ancillary remote betting, betting host and remote betting intermediary (trading rooms only) licences
1 Licensees must as soon as reasonably practicable, in such form or manner as the Commission may from time to time specify, provide the Commission with any information that they know relates to or suspect may relate to the commission of an offence under the Gambling Act 2005, including an offence resulting from a breach of a licence condition or a code provision having the effect of a licence condition.
Last updated: 15 May 2023
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