This morning (7th November 2024) the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) published its official statistics for “Young People and Gambling 2024.” This release marks the fourth dataset, providing insights into “young people’s exposure to and involvement in gambling” in the 12 months leading up to the report. As well as indicating the “impact gambling can have on them”.…
The National Centre for Social Research has published a mostly positive review of Great Britain’s ban on credit card for gambling. Great Britain was the first country to pass a credit card ban when it introduced the regulation in April 2020. The Gambling Commission’s Executive Director of Research and Policy commented: “We are pleased that…
New research into the use of loot boxes on the popular Steam platform has shed new light on their legality and gambling regulators’ failure to prosecute supposedly illegal operators. The paper from video gaming law specialist Leon Xiao of the Center for Digital Play, IT University of Copenhagen, concludes that paid loot boxes with random…
Dan Waugh of Regulus Partners continues his groundbreaking series of articles that expose the myth-making around gambling and misuse of statistics
Expert lawyers say Gambling Commission remains vague on definition of “frictionless” checks The UK Gambling Commission announced its next steps for the introduction of financial risk checks, yesterday (February 23), in a blog from Gambling Commission Executive Director of Policy Development Tim Miller. The hugely controversial move will be debated in the House of Commons…
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has announced that it will proceed with the next steps to implement affordability checks on remote gambling operators. The decision was announced this afternoon by Tim Miller, Executive Director of Policy Development for the Gambling Commission. Affordability checks were deemed a key protection needed to “identify and take action for customers who may be…
Gambling Commission CEO Andrew Rhodes made a plea for reasonableness, when addressing the crowd at ICE
This publication provides information about young people’s participation in different types of gambling and the prevalence of problem gambling. It includes statistics about those forms of gambling that children and young people can legally take part in along with gambling on age restricted products. The findings are taken from the annual Young People and Gambling…
In 2019 the UK Gambling Commission published the 2019 Young People & Gambling survey which looks at gambling trends of 11 – 16-year-olds in Great Britain. The survey looks at those forms of gambling and gambling style games that young people legally take part in along with gambling on age restricted products. Key takeaways Source:…
This week witnessed senior figures in the British gambling space, such as Andrew Rhodes, CEO at the UK Gambling Commission and Gambling Minister, Stewart Andrew, address the Select Committee on the recent white paper and gambling regulations.Being asked searching questions by MPs from various parties, gambling was under the spotlight with focuses on Health Surveys,…