- There were 138 casinos operating in Great Britain in 2004-05 and players exchanged £4.16 billion for gaming chips
- The money staked in bingo amounted to £1.78 billion, and £156 million was paid in duty to the Exchequer by the gaming machine industry
- There are approximately 3,600 bookmakers' permits and 8,800 betting office licences presently in force in Great Britain
- The Grand National, traditionally horse racing's biggest event, attracts over 10 million UK viewers and another 600 million worldwide
- 6 million people attended racecourses in 2004 – a new record
- The UK gambling industry employed 96,000 people in 2003-4 (FTE)
The following stakes were placed in 2005 in the UK:
- Betting £47.7 billion
- Pool Betting £0.1 billion
- Bingo £1.8 billion
- National Lottery £4.9 billion
In 2005 Total Duties collected on gambling in the UK were £1.4 billion, including:
- Betting £0.4 billion
- Pool Betting £0.01 billion
- Gaming Duty £0.1 billion
- Machine Licences £0.15 billion
- Bingo £0.08 billion
- National Lottery £0.58 billion
- 64% of English adults had taken part in at least one form of gambling in the previous 12 months (surveyed September 2005 to March 2006)
- Results from the British Gambling Prevalence Study published in 2000 estimated that 0.6% of adults in the UK are problem gamblers
