The Betting and Gaming Council has stated its members are concerned about the UK Gambling Commission’s Gambling Survey for Great Britain as they believe its findings may be “unreliable” and overstating gambling participation and gambling-related harm.
The commission published its first annual GSGB report earlier this week as the gambling regulator seeks to “establish a new baseline for understanding gambling behaviour in Britain”.
However, due to the changes to data collection to a push-to-web methodology, the UKGC has emphasised that the GSGB report estimates “are not directly comparable with results from prior gambling or health surveys and such comparisons should not be used to assess trends over time”.
The GSGB featured responses from 9,804 people in the 2023 annual report, but this figure will increase to around 20,000 by next year.
BGC members raise concerns
In a statement, BGC members have raised concerns about the estimates reported in the GSGB, noting that the estimates m..