Inside the Commission

Released to coincide with the research published in December 2025, part one of this two part episode features George Webster from Humankind Research and Lauren Cole from the Gambling Commission. They explain the reasoning behind the qualitative study and what the findings tell us. What are the behaviours of young men and teenage boys when it comes to early gambling behaviour?

Part two coming soon.

We get the chance to talk to operators at our third annual Operator Engagement Forum held at the ICC in Birmingham.

We discuss what issues matter to them, how we can work together to ensure compliance at the earliest opportunity and current topics around anti-money laundering, upcoming policy implications and the illegal gambling market. 

In part 2 of this episode looking at illegal gambling markets, we hear from John Pierce and Donna Duffy as they delve further into the work of the enforcement team at the Gambling Commission.

In the episode John and Donna talk about the upcoming illegal markets report which was published shortly after this episode was recorded. You can read the four chapters of the report on the Gambling Commission website.

Welcome to the second series of Inside the Commission.

In part one of episode one, we hear from John Pierce and Donna Duffy who work in enforcement at the Gambling Commission. They explain the work of the enforcement team in tackling illegal gambling from Facebook lotteries, to illegal online casinos.

Part two of our bonus summer episode is more on a theme of

international engagement. Executive Director Tim Miller talks about the

positive impact global partnership work has on the Commission’s work back in

Great Britain.

In this episode we hear from Jamie Wall from the Gambling Commission as he chats to Jeremy Locke, Vice President of the North American Gaming Regulators Association. The discussion sheds light on the challenges of regulation and why working globally has so many benefits.

In this episode we hear from Nick Oliver who sheds some light on the area in which his team work: sports betting integrity intelligence unit, or SBIU.

In part 2, Nick talks more about some of the events and cases he's been involved in from the London 2012 Olympics, the hugely popular sport of Kabaddi, through to the advent of e-sports, and sports betting more generally.

In this episode we hear from Nick Oliver who sheds some light on the area in which his team work: sports betting integrity intelligence unit, or SBIU.

In part 1, Nick explains the history of the unit and how the team at the Gambling Commission in Great Britain work collaboratively both in this country and abroad to tackle betting corruption.

Join us for part two of our conversation with Director of Research and Statistics, Ben Haden, and our Head of Statistics, Helen Bryce, who talk to us about how the work we're doing with data and research is helping us to build a bigger picture about gambling behaviours and trends in Great Britain.

In the latest episode we hear from Ben Haden and Helen Bryce from our Research and Statistics team.

In Part 1, Ben and Helen chat about the history of gambling evaluation, and what the Gambling Commission is working on when it comes to developing a broader understanding of gambling behaviours in Great Britain, and what the advent of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain means for this work.