It follows a new report which has estimated that 1.5 million members of the British public wager almost £4.3bn on the illegal market every year.
The report, published by consulting firm Frontier Economics and titled ‘The size and economic costs of black market gambling in Great Britain’, was commissioned by the BGC and is described as the “first major study on the black market since the publication of the previous government’s white paper on gambling reform”.
More than 6,000 people were surveyed for the report to “understand whether and how people are accessing black market gambling”, with the scale of the survey allowing for the examination of “information about awareness, behaviours and perceptions by important player demographics and different types of product”.
To gain the most in-depth results, the survey took a nationally representative panel of the ..