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Gambling sector makes extra £1bn from punters, data shows
The Guardian
|November 26, 2025
The UK gambling sector made an extra £1bn from punters in the year to March, according to data expected to strengthen calls for the chancellor to raise betting taxes in today's budget.
Betting companies made £12.6bn from services excluding lotteries in the latest 12-month reporting period, the Gambling Commission revealed yesterday, a 9.3% rise on the £11.5bn made during the previous year.
The numbers were inflated by an almost 15% increase in gross gambling yield from online casino players, which rose to £5bn from £4.4bn during the previous period, and is now 55% higher than at the start of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.
Online casino games have been criticised for being one of the most addictive forms of gambling available in the UK, leading to calls for a rise in online gaming duty by campaigners including the former prime minister Gordon Brown.
Meg Hillier, the chair of parliament's Treasury committee, which has been examining gambling taxes, said: "We believe that addictive online betting should face higher taxes than forms of gambling with cultural benefits, such as horse racing and bingo halls.
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