PPB Counterparty Services Limited, trading as Paddy Power and Betfair, is to pay £490,000 for sending promotional push notifications to devices linked to customers who had self-excluded. 

Skill On Net Limited will pay £305,150 after a Commission investigation revealed social responsibility and anti-money laundering failures. 

Commission Head of statistics Helen Bryce discusses the complexity in measuring the exact number of people categorised as problem gamblers with a variety of estimates generated by a number of different bodies.  

With this in mind, later this year the Commission will be launching the Gambling Survey for Great Britain. 

The Commission has unveiled its Evidence Gaps and Priorities programme which outlines its direction of travel for the next three years. 

This includes six evidence themes which cover the gaps and research questions that must be answered to ensure the Commission regulates effectively.