Exclusions
Dear Gambling Commission,
In relation to the (a) 2022 and (b) 2023 calendar years please answer the following questions:
1. How many applications were made to gambling organisations by individuals to be “self-excluded”? How many distinct people does this represent?
2. Fore each year please provide a top 10 showing the ten organisations that issued the most self-exclusions in that year? Please provide the name of the organisation and the number of self-exclusions in that year?
3. How many attempts were made by people who were self-excluded to try to bet again?
4. How many self-exclusion bans were lifted by the gambling organisation at the request of the person who had been self-excluded?
Yours faithfully,
Matthew Davis
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