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Statistics and research release

Industry Statistics – Quarterly report – Financial year April 2025 to March 2026, Quarter 1: Official statistics

The latest statistics cover the period between April 2025 to June 2025.

Latest release Official statistics

Summary

This report, covering the period April 2025 to June 2025, marks the first of a series of quarterly publications of industry statistics, which we are publishing alongside the annual report (April 2024 to March 2025).

We are able to publish data on a quarterly basis now that all licensed operators are required to submit their regulatory returns at the same time each quarter, following changes that we made in July 2024. For more detail on these changes, visit Regulatory returns changes - effective 1 July 2024.

The quarterly publication includes core industry data from the customer-facing sectors of the market in Great Britain, such as Gross Gambling Yield (GGY) and premises numbers, but the annual publication remains the more comprehensive report.

In the report we have included data from the 3 previous quarters (July to September 2024, October to December 2024, and January to March 2025) to reveal seasonal trends and to provide rolling 12-month totals and averages.

The quarterly publications do not include lotteries data, as a result of differences in the submission timeframes.

Key facts

£3.3 billion - Total gross gambling yield (GGY) of the gambling industry in Great Britain (excluding all reported lotteries) (April 2025 to June 2025).

8,219 - Total number of premises in Great Britain (April 2025 to June 2025).

5,789 - Total number of betting shops in Great Britain (April 2025 to June 2025)

£2.0 billion – Total GGY for Remote Casino, Betting and Bingo Sector (RCBB) (April 2025 to June 2025).

£1.4 billion – Total Remote Casino GGY, which equates to 67.2 percent of the Total RCBB GGY (April 2025 to June 2025).

£1.2 billion - Total GGY for Non-remote Sectors (Arcades, Betting, Bingo and Casino) (April 2025 to June 2025).

£622 million – Total Betting (Non-remote) GGY, which equates to 50.6 percent of the Total Non-remote GGY (April 2025 to June 2025).

188,559 – Number of machines in Gambling Commission licensed premises in Great Britain (April 2025 to June 2025).

Notes

This publication is primarily for anyone who has an involvement or interest in the gambling industry including government, licensed operators, trade bodies, international regulators, journalists, academic researchers, financial institutions, statisticians, consumers, and local authorities.

About the status of official statistics.

Read about how we prepare our industry statistics.

We intend to publish the next quarterly industry statistics by February 2026. These will cover the period from July 2025 to September 2025.

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