Asked by: Lord Smith of Hindhead (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the amount of revenue that was raised from online gambling in each year between 2010 and 2018.
Answered by Lord Bates
No separate estimate of revenue raised from online gambling has been made, as this information isn’t recorded on trader returns or cash receipts. HMRC publish information on total receipts from all of the betting & gaming duties, including General Betting Duty (GBD), Remote Gaming Duty (RGD) & Machine Games Duty (MGD).
Asked by: Lord Smith of Hindhead (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many mobile phone gambling apps were registered in the UK in each year between 2010 and 2018.
Answered by Lord Ashton of Hyde
The Gambling Commission does not track the year to year growth in this area.
There are currently 1,375 active websites and apps on the Gambling Commission’s public register. The Gambling Commission’s data does not differentiate between websites and mobile phone apps and the full register can be found at: https://secure.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/PublicRegister/Search?Search=&Sector=Remote
Asked by: Lord Smith of Hindhead (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many online gambling businesses were registered in total in the UK in each year between 2010 and 2018; and of those, how many were newly registered in each of those years.
Answered by Lord Ashton of Hyde
Gambling operators can hold a number of licences to allow for multiple forms of activity, including software development and offering gambling services directly to consumers. The number of licences can change as operators add, merge or surrender licences.
The number of unique licensees that held a licence for at least one activity that relates to the provision of 'online' gambling services, whether Business to Business or Business to Consumer, permits operating a gambling website were as follows:
March 2015 - 281
March 2016 - 286
March 2017 - 291
March 2018 - 317
The number of new operators that obtained a licence that permits an 'online' presence in each calendar year was:
2015 - 63
2016 - 47
2017 - 52
2018 - 36
These numbers include some Business to Business licensees who have selected not to offer Business to Consumer services.
Data for the period prior to the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014, which moved the regulation of online gambling in the UK to a point of consumption basis, is limited.
Asked by: Lord Smith of Hindhead (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of gambling affiliates which operate in the UK.
Answered by Lord Ashton of Hyde
Consumer complaints about gambling advertising are generally directed to and dealt with by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) or Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), rather than central government.
The ASA received 10,165 complaints about gambling advertising between 2010 and 2018:
Year | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
Total | 1655 | 394 | 1168 | 1138 | 1090 | 987 | 1615 | 933 | 1185 |
Data provided by the ICO shows there were 10,270 complaints between 2014, when gambling was introduced as a complaint category, and 2018. The Gambling Commission is not the lead regulatory authority, but its contact centre does deal with some consumer complaints. It received 1,104 complaints about gambling advertising and marketing between 2014, when advertising became part of its remit, and 2018.
Neither government nor the Gambling Commision holds data on the number of marketing affiliates operating in the UK. Gambling operators providing services to customers in Great Britain must be licensed by the Commission and are responsible for the actions of third parties, including marketing affiliates. If an affiliate breaches licence conditions and codes of practice (LCCP) the operator will be held accountable.
Asked by: Lord Smith of Hindhead (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many complaints they have received regarding gambling advertising in each year between 2010 and 2018.
Answered by Lord Ashton of Hyde
Consumer complaints about gambling advertising are generally directed to and dealt with by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) or Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), rather than central government.
The ASA received 10,165 complaints about gambling advertising between 2010 and 2018:
Year | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
Total | 1655 | 394 | 1168 | 1138 | 1090 | 987 | 1615 | 933 | 1185 |
Data provided by the ICO shows there were 10,270 complaints between 2014, when gambling was introduced as a complaint category, and 2018. The Gambling Commission is not the lead regulatory authority, but its contact centre does deal with some consumer complaints. It received 1,104 complaints about gambling advertising and marketing between 2014, when advertising became part of its remit, and 2018.
Neither government nor the Gambling Commision holds data on the number of marketing affiliates operating in the UK. Gambling operators providing services to customers in Great Britain must be licensed by the Commission and are responsible for the actions of third parties, including marketing affiliates. If an affiliate breaches licence conditions and codes of practice (LCCP) the operator will be held accountable.
Asked by: Lord Smith of Hindhead (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many fines have been issued to companies for contravening the Gambling Act 2005 in each year between 2010 and 2018.
Answered by Lord Ashton of Hyde
Where an operator fails to meet its requirements under the Licensing Conditions and Codes of Practice, the Gambling Commission can take regulatory action. Whilst the vast majority of issues are resolved without the use of formal powers, the Gambling Commission may, in the event of a serious breach, impose financial penalties or revoke an operator’s licence. Within the regulatory process, the Commission may also agree a regulatory settlement, whereby an operator agrees to makes a donation to a socially responsible cause.
The table below shows the number of fines and regulatory settlements issued between 2010 and 2018. Together, these came to over £40 million. These figures do not include other fines which may have been issued by the courts as a result of prosecutions brought by other enforcement agencies.
| Fines imposed under s121 of the Gambling Act | Regulatory settlements |
2010 | 2 | Unknown |
2011 | 0 | Unknown |
2012 | 2 | Unknown |
2013 | 1 | 3 |
2014 | 1 | 3 |
2015 | 1 | 2 |
2016 | 1 | 3 |
2017 | 1 | 6 |
2018 | 3 | 9 |
Total | 12 | 26 |
Asked by: Lord Smith of Hindhead (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government when the expert working group report into Primodos is expected to be published.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
The report of the Commission on Human Medicines’ Expert Working Group on Hormone Pregnancy Tests (including Primodos) is currently being finalised and is expected to be published before the end of autumn.
Asked by: Lord Smith of Hindhead (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many complaints the Gambling Commission received in 2016 related to gambling affiliate activity.
Answered by Lord Ashton of Hyde
Complaints made directly to the Commission are dealt with by its central contact centre and to collate information on the number relating to affiliates would involve reviewing each complaint individually at disproportionate cost. The Commission is not the lead regulatory authority for advertising or SMS messaging and consumer complaints are directed to the Advertising Standards Authority or Information Commissioner’s Office in the first instance.
Gambling operators providing services to customers in Great Britain must be licensed by the Commission and are responsible for the actions of affiliates on their behalf. If an affiliate breaches licence conditions and codes of practice (LCCP) the operator will be held accountable.
Asked by: Lord Smith of Hindhead (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many convictions for domestic violence against (1) women, and (2) men, were obtained in 2016.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
The Home Office does not hold the information requested centrally.
Information on domestic violence and abuse can be found in the Domestic Abuse in England and Wales statistical publication, which is available here:
Asked by: Lord Smith of Hindhead (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many incidents of domestic violence against women were recorded as having occurred in the workplace in 2016.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
The Home Office does not hold the information requested centrally.
Information on domestic violence and abuse can be found in the Domestic Abuse in England and Wales statistical publication, which is available here: