The Gambling Commission has published its Trust Statement for the 2024/25 financial year, detailing the amount of money collected for the Treasury’s Consolidated Fund via financial penalties and the Economic Crime Levy (ECL).
According to the updated accounts, the UK regulator generated a total revenue from those channels of £3.241m, that money taking into account the £2.36m ($3.17m) raised by the ECL and £879,000 collected in financial penalties.
Collection costs created an additional expenditure of £114,000, meaning the amount contributed to the UK Consolidated Fund was £3.127m.
The eventual sum contribution seems small in light of recent high-profile fines, such as the £10m that Platinum Gaming was ordered to pay in October 2025 – that fine will of course be accounted for in the GC’s next Trust Statement.
Indeed, the 2024/25 contributions also represented a 64% reduction when compared to the previous year, during which the GC generated £8.745m in revenue for the Consolidated Fund.
It is important to note that regulatory settlements, such as the £1m payment agreed with Admiral Casino in January 2025, do not count towards these figures.
In these cases, the money is not retained by the GC and is instead transferred directly to certain socially responsible causes in lieu of a fine – this was also the case with the most recent enforcement action against Paddy Power Betfair.
This statement is the first of its kind from the GC, but in future years will be incorporated into the authority’s regular annual report rather than arriving separately.
The Economic Crime Levy was introduced in 2022 and is collected from regulated casinos to fund efforts against unregulated entities and money laundering operations
