The UK’s Gambling Commission has issued its half-yearly gambling industry statistics showing that between October 2018 and September 2019 the gross gambling yield was £14.3bn, a 0.5 per cent decrease.
Nearly all the land-based sectors showed a decrease during the period, while the statistics for the online industry rose.
Taking out the National Lottery, the overall GGY figure was £10.5bn, down 1.9 per cent. A further decrease was recorded in the number of employees in the gambling industry, down 4.4 per cent to 98,174, and in the total number of premises involved in gambling in Great Britain, down 9.6 per cent to 9,745.
Betting shops were 12.1 per cent fewer at 7,315 and the GGY from gaming machines fell 11.8 per cent to £2.5bn.
The remote betting sector saw a 4.3 per cent increase to £2.1bn between April 2018 and March 2019, says the commission. Remote bingo yield was £198m, up 12.5 per cent, and remote casino rose 3.9 per cent to £3.2bn.
