In an article entitled ‘Local government groups issue model motion for councils to show support for choice to hold remote and hybrid meetings’, LocalGovernmentLawyer has reported that five local government organisations have asked councils to consider passing a motion and writing to the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to show their […]
The Gambling Commission has announced today (24 February 2022) that, pursuant to a regulatory settlement, BV Gaming Limited, trading as BetVictor, will pay a total of £2million not only for AML and social responsibility failings of a type that have featured in many previous regulatory enforcement cases but also for offering gambling facilities subject to […]
The Gambling Commission has published a statistical release that covers its quarterly gambling participation and problem gambling prevalence data for the year to December 2021, as well as reporting on respondents’ perceptions of trust, crime, and attitudes towards gambling. The data is based on the Gambling Commission’s quarterly surveys in which a nationally representative sample […]
In February 2021, we reported on the decision by Kindred Group – in pursuit of its ambition that zero per cent of the revenue from its platform is generated from harmful gambling by 2023 – to publish its assessment of the proportion of gross winnings it has derived from high-risk players. Now, as publication of the Gambling […]
Ahead of the Government White Paper in relation to the Review of the Gambling Act 2005, the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) have joined forces to call for tougher powers for councils to determine where and how many gambling premises can open in their areas, alongside a crackdown […]
Under the heading ‘NHS stops taking gambling funds to treat addiction’, the BBC has today (19 February 2022) reported that NHS England national mental health director Claire Murdoch has written a letter to GambleAware in which she states that, with effect from 1 April this year, the NHS will reject further funding from GambleAware and instead […]
A year after the Betting and Gaming Council published a PWC report that found evidence for the existence and growth of unlicensed online gambling in the UK, it has now revealed new research evidence of the scale of black market gambling in European countries following the introduction in those countries of strict new measures on regulated […]
The Gambling Commission has today (17 February 2022) published operator data showing the impact of COVID-19 on gambling behaviour in the period between March 2020 and December 2021 inclusive. Commenting on this on its website, the Commission states that it continues to “expect extra vigilance from operators as consumers are impacted in different ways by the […]
In the last couple of days, the Gambling Commission has published: Data around consumer experiences and attitudes towards Free Bets & Bonuses and Data and consumer views on why people gamble We comment below on each in turn. 1. Free bets and bonuses The Commission has explained that the purpose of this data was “to […]
1. Background As reported by us at the time, in October 2016 the Gambling Commission announced that it was supporting a Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) investigation into whether gambling operators were treating customers fairly. The CMA provided an update in January 2017. Five months later, in June 2017, it was announced that: a number […]
