The evaluation of policy measures will be conducted by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), which began a scoping study in January 2024, to be followed by fieldwork research beginning in January 2025. NatCen is expected to present its findings and deliver the final report in 2026.
As detailed in the DCMS foreword: “The gambling white paper contains over 60 proposed policy measures, to be delivered by a mixture of different stakeholders, making it a highly complex policy initiative. The policy measures have different timeframes and implementation processes, and potentially intersecting outcomes and impacts. Attribution or contribution of observed changes to any one policy measure is therefore difficult.”
“DCMS and the Gambling Commission are working together to deliver an appropriate programme of work to evaluate the ..