Consultation on amending section 2.39 in the Statement of Principles for Determining Financial Penalties in relation to the destination of future regulatory settlements

Thank you for taking part in the consultation. This consultation document covers one proposal and has a number of questions for you to answer. You can respond to as few or as many questions as you wish and we will consider all responses. 

We ask that everyone responds to this consultation using the online survey, although responses can be submitted by post to: Policy Team, Gambling Commission, 4th Floor, Victoria Square House, Birmingham, B2 4BP.  

The print version of the consultation document is laid out slightly differently to the online version. 

We may decide to publish your name (if you are responding in a personal capacity) or the name of your organisation (if you are responding on your organisation’s behalf) on our website to indicate that you responded to this consultation. Please confirm within the survey whether you give consent to these details being published.  

Information about how the Gambling Commission processes your personal information, including a specific section on information we collect as part of a Gambling Commission consultation exercise, can be found in the Gambling Commission’s Privacy Policy. 

The consultation will run for 8 weeks and will close on Thursday 2 April 2026. 

The Commission follows good principles of running a consultation for a proportionate period of time, taking into account the nature and impact of the proposal.  Given that this is a non-complex single topic consultation with a narrow scope, we propose a consultation window of eight weeks. The proposal does not have a direct impact on licensees in terms of incurring costs or needing to change processes and we do not anticipate that stakeholders’ responses will be complex. We are also of the view that it would be more beneficial for stakeholders to have clarity on the future destination of regulatory settlements as soon as is practicable. Taking all of these factors into account, we therefore believe that an eight-week response window is appropriate and proportionate for this consultation proposal.