The Gambling Commission is under scrutiny from the UK’s statistics watchdog, over concerns its flagship gambling harms survey may be overestimating problem gambling rates and misleading policymakers.
The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has published a comprehensive review of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB), following complaints from stakeholders who raised serious questions about the survey’s methodology and transparency.
The OSR identified significant areas for improvement and issued four key recommendations to enhance the survey’s reliability.
The review comes amid growing concerns that the GSGB, which produces higher gambling participation rates than other official surveys, could be providing an inflated picture of gambling harm that risks driving inappropriate policy responses.
