Inside the Commission

Part two of this episode featuring George Webster from Humankind Research and Lauren Cole from the Gambling Commission. We'll hear from George and Lauren about the findings and conclusions from the research and what it means for future plans.

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.