The Gambling Commission (“the Commission”) was set up under the Gambling Act 2005 (“the Act”) to regulate commercial gambling in Great Britain. The Act came fully into force on 1 September 2007. The Commission regulates commercial gambling in Great Britain, including arcades (excluding unlicensed Family Entertainment Centres), betting, bingo, casinos, gaming machine manufacturers and suppliers, gambling software providers, lottery operators and external lottery managers (excluding small society lotteries), Great Britain based remote gambling and overseas gambling companies (in line with the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014), and the National Lottery1 . The Commission does not regulate spread betting - this is the responsibility of the Financial Conduct Authority.

This report summarises survey data collected by the Commission during 2016, and covers gambling participation and consumer behaviour. The data have been gather via a combination of telephone and online surveys, as indicated in the table below and throughout this report.

Online survey

The online survey is used to monitor online gambling behaviour and was launched following the introduction of regulation of overseas gambling companies (in line with the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014). The surveys are conducted quarterly in March, June, September and December by Populus. Approximately 2,000 interviews with people aged 18+ are collected each quarter. satta king The survey sample is drawn in two different ways – 50% is taken from online panel members, and each wave contains 50% fresh sample sourced from online advertising. Once again, the data reported are weighted in terms of demographic and socio-economic indicators and are calculated using all four quarters of data covering the year to December 2016, with trend data shown for year to December 2015