Private operators may be licensed locally and are supervised by a named authority.
Recorded framework: licensed market, transcribed from the jurisdiction's own law and regulator. GambleLABS has not yet completed an editorial review of it, so it is reference data rather than a GambleLABS assessment.
GambleLABS note
Remote and non-remote gambling is licensed by the Gambling Commission under the Gambling Act 2005.
Read on . A citation, not a verdict: it records where this classification was transcribed from. Whether a GambleLABS editor has since checked it is the separate question answered above.
02Who is responsible
Authorities
The bodies recorded for this jurisdiction, gambling regulator first. Every URL below points at the authority's own site; where we hold no URL, the row says so rather than guessing at one.
Gambling Commission
UKGC
Gambling regulator
Licenses and supervises remote and non-remote gambling in Great Britain under the Gambling Act 2005.
Published licence records naming this jurisdiction, each read from an official register entry.
No records published
No licences recorded
No published licence record names this jurisdiction. Licence records are transcribed from an authority's own register, so an empty list reflects our coverage, not the size of the market.
Entries published by an authority in this jurisdiction. Still-listed entries come first; delisted entries stay on file as history.
No records published
No domains named
No authority in this jurisdiction has published a warning-list entry that we hold. A domain is shown as unauthorised only on an authority's own listing — never on our inference.
06Who is here
Linked entities
Published dossiers connected to this jurisdiction, and the nature of each connection. A company can appear more than once where it holds more than one relationship.
No records published
No entities linked
No published dossier records a relationship with this jurisdiction. A link is created only where an incorporation, licence, operation or marketing relationship is documented.
Every figure is transcribed from a named publisher and carries the period it covers, the currency it was stated in and whether a reviewer confirmed it at source. Figures are never converted between currencies and never summed across metrics.
Gross gambling revenue
Financial year April 2024 to March 2025
Verified at source — A GambleLABS reviewer opened the source and confirmed this figure.
GBP 16.80bn
GBP 16,800,000,000 as published
Stakes minus winnings paid out — what operators retained. The only figure broadly comparable between regimes.
Scope
Whole licensed industry, including lotteries
Retrieved
Gross gambling yield. The Commission also reports £12.6bn for the same period excluding all reported lotteries; the two figures are not interchangeable.
Enforcement, licence changes, warning listings, reclassifications and published analysis for this jurisdiction, in date order. Each entry links to the record it came from; nothing here is a new claim.
Nothing dated has been recorded for United Kingdom. A timeline is built from records that already exist — it is not generated — so an empty chronology means no dated record has been published for this jurisdiction, not that nothing has happened in it.
10Editorial history
Classification revisions
How this jurisdiction's regime classification has changed, and on whose authority. Every change carries a source, a stated reason and a named reviewer.
This classification has not been changed since the record was created. Any future change will be listed here with its date, its stated reason, the source it rests on and the reviewer who made it.
11Scope
Sources, method and limits
What this profile rests on, and what it cannot tell you.
What this record cannot tell you
—GambleLABS has not completed an editorial review of this jurisdiction. The regime shown is transcribed from the jurisdiction's own law and regulator and is marked unverified: it is reference data, not a GambleLABS assessment.
—No enforcement actions are on file. Absence of records is not evidence of an absence of enforcement: it usually means the authority does not publish decisions in a form that can be collected.
—Individual statutes and licence conditions are not held as records. The regime classification and the authority's own published material are the legal basis this profile can evidence; primary legislation must be read at the authority's site.
Where this comes from
Authorities and their official URLs are verified against each body’s own site. Licences and enforcement records are transcribed from the register or notice named on each record. Market figures come from the publisher named beside them. Analysis is GambleLABS work, labelled with its evidence standard and its source count.
The upstream feeds GambleLABS has declared for this jurisdiction, whether each is actually reading, and — where it is not — the reason. A declared feed is a commitment, not a claim that data is flowing.
1 of 4 declared feeds are connected.
Companies House company data (United Kingdom)
Corporate registry · Manual source
Not connected
Adapter not written and no API credential has been requested. Officer and shareholding data is personal data and needs a retention and minimisation decision before any of it is stored.
Official HTML register verified, but no documented structured feed was found. Adapter remains disabled until stable record identifiers, pagination and change detection are proven.
Gambling Commission public register (Great Britain)
Licence register · Official dataset
Connected
Connected for business account identities only. This dataset does not itself prove a current licence status, licence product, operating domain or entity relationship; those remain subject to separate evidence and human review.
Adapter not written. Judgments naming gambling companies must be selected by a human; automated name matching against the entity table is not an acceptable basis for publishing a court record.
