Gross Gambling Yield for online gambling between October 2017 and September 2018 stood at £5.6bn – a 2.9 per cent increased on the 12-month period from April 2017 to March 2018.
The market share of online gambling grew by 1.2 per cent to 39 per cent.
Ben Haden, the UK Gambling Commission’s programme director for industry insight, said: “Despite the marginal decline across the wider gambling industry, the online gambling sector continues to grow. Our role as regulator will continue to see us working to raise standards right across the industry.
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