Almost one-third of the UK’s gambling market is remote or online, according to statistics released by the Gambling Commission.
The figures - collected over the previous year from operators - show that 29 per cent of the gambling market, of £3.6bn is online, but it is showing little change from the previous figures.
The report also shows that £12.6bn is the gross gambling yield in Great Britain, compared with £11.2bn in the previous year. The number of betting shops decreased slightly to 8,809 (8,975 in March of 2015) and the number of adult gaming centres or arcades fell by 11.1 per cent at 1,721 compared with 1,937 in March 2015.
The number of B2 machines, high-stakes gambling machines in bookmakers’ shops, stood at 34,704, with little change from the previous year when it was 34,894, but the yield from the machines rose from £1.68bn to £1.71bn.
Britain had 599 bingo halls, a fall of 10.1 per cent, but yield was up by 4.9 per cent.
