Best Gambling Sites UK Consumer Protection Rules

The best gambling sites UK players can use are those carrying a Gambling Commission licence: they join GamStop Online, face a 10× cap on bonus wagering, must clear 96.3 per cent of withdrawals automatically, and answer to a British regulator. Offshore sites answer to nobody here.

The phrase "best gambling site" is doing a lot of quiet work in that sentence, and most of the pages competing for it never define what the word means. It usually means the one with the biggest welcome offer, which is a strange way to rank anything. An offer is a marketing budget dressed as generosity. What actually differs between one operator and the next is duller and more measurable: whether the licence is real, how fast the money comes back, what the terms do when a bonus is involved, and who picks up the phone when something goes wrong.

instantpayoutcasinosuk.com looks at this market from one fixed position: how British rules compare with offshore ones. That is not the same as saying British is always better. There are offshore operators that pay out inside an hour and British ones that will make a withdrawal sit for three days while a compliance team shuffles paper. But there is a structural difference that no amount of good service erases. A site licensed in Great Britain is bound by conditions set in the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice. A site licensed in Curaçao, Anjouan or Kahnawà:ke is not bound by any of them, and the Gambling Act 2005 makes it an offence under section 33 to provide gambling facilities to consumers in Great Britain without a Commission licence — including where the operator holds a licence somewhere else. So the distinction is not a matter of taste. It is the difference between a market with rules and one without.

The Best UK Gambling Sites Are Judged on Paperwork, Not on Offers

Since 31 March 2020, every online operator with a British licence has had to be part of GamStop as a condition of that licence, under social responsibility code provision 3.5.5 of the LCCP. The scheme is free to use, and it is often typed "gamestop", though GamStop is the name on the register. Signing up blocks a person from every British-licensed online operator for six months, one year, five years or five years with auto-renewal, and it takes up to 24 hours for the block to bite. It cannot be cancelled mid-term, and it does not lapse quietly at the end: the exclusion stays in place until the person contacts GamStop to remove it. If they never do, the scheme holds the data through a further automatic seven-year period during which operators are told that person was previously excluded. That is the mechanism working exactly as designed.

It is also, if we are honest, why so many searches about offshore casinos exist in the first place. An offshore site cannot see a GamStop registration — the scheme's obligations bind only British licensees — and the Commission issued an industry warning notice on 20 January 2025 saying unlicensed sites often target people who have self-excluded precisely because of this. I am not going to write that up as a discovery, or pretend it is a clever workaround. The exclusion holds for its full term and then stays in place until the person contacts GamStop to remove it. A site that cannot see it is a site that cannot protect it.

Withdrawing Money Safely

The Commission's most useful piece of consumer-facing evidence is a withdrawal dataset covering June to September 2024, drawn from large online operators. In that period those operators processed 44.2 million withdrawals. Of the total, 96.3 per cent cleared automatically, 3.5 per cent cleared within 24 hours and 0.1 per cent took up to 48 hours. Put the other way round: the overwhelming majority of British payouts need no human being at all.

That is the standard an offshore site is being measured against, whether or not it cares. And it explains why the Commission has spent years pressing operators on friction. Its Contact Centre receives over 6,000 calls a year, and withdrawal problems have been the number one subject of consumer complaints; by July 2024 it was still fielding around 2,000 complaints a year about delays. In the Annual Report and Accounts 2024-25 it said that despite work with operators, withdrawals continued to cause most of the complaints it receives. A new blog in August 2026 added a datapoint the Commission clearly finds annoying: over a quarter of complaints now concern identity verification, raised by customers who were asked for documents only at the point of withdrawal.

The rules here are unusually clear, and worth knowing because they are the sort of thing an offshore site simply does not have to follow. LCCP licence condition 17.1.1 says a withdrawal request must not trigger a demand for extra information if the licensee could reasonably have asked earlier — though it may still seek information that anti-money-laundering law obliges it to obtain at that moment. Licence condition 7.1.1 requires terms to be fair under the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Reverse withdrawals were banned outright by RTS requirement 14B on 31 October 2021: once a withdrawal is requested, a customer must not be offered the option to cancel it and spend the money instead. And the Competition and Markets Authority's undertakings, agreed with six operators and published in August 2018, mean no British site may put a maximum limit on what a customer can withdraw from their deposit balance. The CMA's example of a term it regards as unlawful is a cap such as "You may withdraw up to £50 per day and up to £500 per week".

British regulators have also been willing to make an example of operators who stretch the terms. On 21 October 2026, an operator, which runs seven websites, agreed to pay £900,000 in a regulatory settlement for failures that included unnecessarily delaying consumer withdrawals — among them a term allowing customers to request only one withdrawal at a time, and a practice of manually reviewing every fifth or tenth withdrawal so that extra information was demanded before payment. A year earlier, in July 2025, another operator was fined £170,000 for failures including a bonus term stating the operator had the right at its own discretion to close accounts or forfeit winnings. That kind of clause is common offshore.

How Non UK Gambling Sites Compare

Offshore operators are not a monolith, and it would be lazy to describe them as one. Curaçao rebuilt its regime when the National Ordinance on Games of Chance, the LOK, took effect on 24 December 2024, replacing the old master-licence and sub-licence model with direct licensing by the Curaçao Gaming Authority. The legacy "orange" certificates of operation ended on 15 October 2025, so any site still displaying one as proof of a current licence is advertising history. Licensing by the four former master licensors ceased between August 2024 and January 2025. A Curaçao B2C applicant pays a one-time, non-refundable €4,592, with €150 per ultimate beneficial owner, and a B2C operator then pays €47,450 a year: €24,490 to the National Treasury and €22,960 to the Authority. In Kahnawà:ke, a Client Provider Authorisation application fee rises from USD 35,000 to USD 40,000 on 1 January 2027, with the annual fee unchanged at USD 20,000. Anjouan charges €17,828 for a B2C licence and the same again on renewal, with €500 per extra domain.

Costs tell you something about scrutiny, but only something. Curaçao has real certification machinery now: a Certificate of Operation Seal is issued only to B2C operators and only for an approved, registered player-facing domain, and clicking it must redirect to cert.cga.cw. If the certificate behind the seal shows a different domain from the one being visited, the site is displaying someone else's paperwork and should be treated as unauthorised. Anjouan certificates carry a licence number and a QR code linking to a public register, and the regulator's own guidance says a certificate that cannot be verified there should not be relied on.

Anjouan is also the clearest illustration of why a licence is not a shield. An ABC News investigation published on 31 December 2025 reported that Anjouan Licensing Services claims to have issued more than 1,300 gambling licences at around €17,000 each per year, and that a former attorney-general of the Comoros described the entity selling those licences as illegal. The regulator's own answer, in a statement on 10 June 2026, was that an Anjouan licence "is not, and has never been presented as, a universal authorisation to operate in every country in the world". That is correct, and it is precisely the point. Section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005 applies to remote gambling where at least one piece of remote gambling equipment used is situated in Great Britain, or where the provider knows or should know the facilities are likely to be used in Great Britain. A licence from elsewhere does not answer that.

Comparing UK and Offshore Terms Side by Side

The table below sets the two rulebooks against each other by criterion rather than by brand, because brands change ownership, licensing base and terms without warning and the rules do not.

Two numbers in that table deserve the ink. The first is the 10× wagering cap, in force since 19 January 2026 by social responsibility code 5.1.1. The Commission chose a cap over an outright ban, noting that some licensees had applied requirements of up to 60× and that a ban would likely push operators towards terms preventing customers cashing out bonuses at all. The second is that wagering requirement in the same code, defined as a customer being required to make wagers totalling a particular value before funds become withdrawable. Offshore sites are not bound by it, and a welcome bonus at 40× is not a bigger gift than one at 10×; it is the same gift with a longer chain attached.

How British Rules Change Online Slots

Online slots are where the money is, and where the rules bite hardest. Gross gambling yield for the remote casino sector was £5.0 billion in April 2024 to March 2025, of which £4.2 billion came from slot games. For the quarter from January to March 2026, online slots GGY rose 12 per cent year on year to £773 million, on 25.1 billion spins.

Since 9 April 2025, the maximum stake per game cycle on online slots has been £5 for all adults and £2 for those aged 18 to 24, imposed by amending every remote casino operating licence through the Gambling Act 2005 (Operating Licence Conditions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025. The limits apply to slots only, not to roulette or blackjack, and at least 2.5 seconds must pass from the start of a game before the next cycle can begin under RTS 14D. Those are not optional features that a good operator might adopt. They are licence conditions, and an offshore slots site offering £50 spins is not offering more entertainment; it is offering the game at a speed and stake that the British regulator has judged unsafe.

The same principle runs through the bonus rules. Since 19 January 2026 a licensee may not mix more than one gambling product type inside a single incentive, including where the terms are linked or shared. The Commission's own illustration is that "Bet £5 and get £10 free bet" is compliant because the qualifying activity and the prize are the same product, while "Bet £5 to get 20 free spins" is not. A free-spins offer tied to a casino deposit is therefore a British site playing by the rules, not a site cutting corners.

Understanding Crypto Gambling Risks

Crypto is where the comparison gets awkward, because the honest answer contains a genuine British advantage and a genuine offshore one. The British advantage is structural. Bank gambling blocks, listed by the Commission in a page last updated 16 October 2026, are offered by Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Halifax, HSBC, Lloyds Bank, MBNA, Monzo, NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander and Starling. They decline payments to merchants categorised under gambling Merchant Category Codes, cover online casinos, betting sites, gaming apps and physical venues, are applied at card level so must be set on each card, and do not affect a credit score. Turning one off generally triggers a 48- or 72-hour cooling-off period before gambling transactions go through again. There is no equivalent of that in a wallet transfer.

The offshore advantage is speed, and it is real: Bitcoin targets a 10-minute average block interval, though the probability of a block inside any ten-minute window is around 63 per cent, rising to 95 per cent within 30 minutes. Litecoin targets a 2.5-minute average block interval, with six confirmations averaging about 15 minutes. A USDT transfer on TRON to a wallet that already holds USDT consumes around 65,000 Energy, roughly 13 TRX without staked Energy; to a new wallet it is about 130,000 Energy and 26 TRX. It is fast and it is largely irreversible.

That irreversibility is the trade. There is no chargeback, no ADR provider with jurisdiction, and no regulator in Great Britain to complain to. The Commission is explicit that it is a regulator rather than an ombudsman and cannot resolve individual disputes or recover money for consumers.

Why Identity Checks Turn Up at the Wrong Moment

If there is one thing the British market turns on, it is identity verification, and the first time it happens is usually the moment a player notices it. Under licence condition 17, introduced on 7 May 2019, an operator must obtain and verify a customer's identity — name, address and date of birth at minimum — before that customer is permitted to gamble. In practice most remote casinos run a hybrid approach: they identify the customer and verify age at registration, then defer full verification until a threshold is triggered. That threshold, under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017, is €2,000 deposited or withdrawn. Crucially, the threshold applies both to a single transaction and to transactions that appear linked — the same game, one session, or a single logged-on period counts as linked.

The first time, verification is often invisible. Operators match details against credit reference agencies and the electoral roll, and no document is ever requested. Later, when an account's activity changes — a larger deposit pattern, a new payment method, a first withdrawal — a document request arrives, and the experience flips from seamless to suspicious in a paragraph.

The warning signs are worth naming, because a legitimate check and a delay dressed as one look similar from the outside. A check that demands bank statements to justify source of funds after a win is not the same as asking for a passport before the account is used. A term allowing the operator sole discretion to void winnings is unfair under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, and the Commission says so. Funds may never be confiscated because a customer failed identity or age verification, and inactivity may not be used to seize a deposit balance. Where a site holds a withdrawal open while asking for documents it could reasonably have sought at sign-up, the Commission's view is that the operator may be in breach of licence condition 17.

Two further protections matter here. Customer funds must be held in a separate client bank account under licence condition 4.1.1, and every operator must state which of three insolvency ratings applies — not protected, medium protection or high protection — with a reminder every six months to anyone rated "not protected". Separation is not insurance: money can still be lost if the business fails, and operators are permitted to hold customer funds in overseas accounts. Anyone who has ever wondered where the money sits between deposit and payout now knows the answer is a bank account someone else controls, disclosed under a rating system that exists only in the British market.

Five Signs an Operator Can Be Trusted

I would rather give a reader five things to check than a ranking they have to take on faith. Each of these takes under two minutes.

The licence is on the register, not just in the footer

Search the Gambling Commission's public register for the business name and click through to see whether the activities and domain names listed match the site actually being used. A licence in a footer is a picture of a licence; the register is the licence. An offshore seal is a different document entirely, and for Curaçao it must redirect to cert.cga.cw while showing the same domain being visited.

GamStop participation is confirmed in the terms

Every British licensee must be in the scheme under social responsibility code 3.5.5, so the terms of use should say so plainly. The quick check is to search the terms for the scheme's name and read the paragraph around it. Absence of any mention is a strong signal that the operator is not licensed here, whatever the footer claims.

Withdrawal terms contain no cap and no reverse option

Read the withdrawal section and look for two things: a maximum amount withdrawable from deposit balance, and any option to cancel a pending withdrawal. The first is prohibited by the CMA undertakings and the Commission's fair-terms guidance; the second was banned by RTS 14B on 31 October 2021. Either appearing in a British-licensed site's terms is a reason to walk away.

Identity and age checks happen before play, not after a win

The Commission expects identity and age verification to be brought forward to before a customer deposits or stakes, and has said onboarding on initials, nicknames or commercial addresses is not sufficient. A site that lets anyone play for weeks and only asks for documents when a withdrawal is pending has the sequence the wrong way round, and that sequence alone explains why over a quarter of complaints to the Commission now concern verification.

Complaints reach a free, Commission-approved ADR provider

Social responsibility code 6.1.1 requires a route to an ADR entity at no cost to the customer if a dispute is unresolved after eight weeks. The approved list includes CEDR, IBAS, eCOGRA and others. IBAS handled 3,721 domestic disputes in 2024-25, with 217 categorised as banking or financial, and reports 100 per cent operator compliance with decisions in the consumer's favour in both 2023-24 and 2024-25.

Six Checks to Run Before Depositing Anywhere

A method beats a list. These are ordinary checks, in the order I would run them.

1. Check the register, then check the domain. Look the operator up on the Commission's public register and confirm the specific domain in use is listed. Reason: a group licence does not cover every website a group operates, and lapsed operations leave orphaned sites behind. The Commission contacted five football clubs about sponsorship arrangements with unlicensed gambling businesses in May 2025 after one operator left the market.
2. Read the withdrawal clause in full, including the schedule. Find how long a payout takes, whether identity documents can be requested at withdrawal, and whether any limit applies. Reason: withdrawal problems are the single biggest complaint category, and a term requiring documents at withdrawal that could have been sought earlier may breach licence condition 17.
3. Set a deposit limit before the first deposit, using the free-text option. Since 31 October 2025 operators must prompt this before a first deposit, must present it as the default option under RTS 12E, and must offer account-level limits. Reason: a limit set at sign-up is the cheapest form of self-control available, and the operator is obliged to make declining it an active choice.
4. Decide on the bonus, not just the number on the banner. Check the wagering multiplier, the maximum bet while wagering, the maximum cashout, and whether deposit funds are staked alongside bonus funds. Reason: in the British market wagering is capped at 10× and deposit balances must be withdrawable at any time, even with a bonus pending — terms that fold in your own money are the classic trap.
5. Layer the payment method with a bank block or blocking software. Bank blocks are offered by eleven named banks, applied at card level and take 48 or 72 hours to switch off. Gamban blocks licensed and unlicensed sites and costs £4.99 a month in England and Scotland, free in Wales, after TalkBanStop funding ended on 31 March 2026; BetBlocker is free worldwide and states it blocks over 1,368,000 websites. Reason: an operator's controls protect the operator's licence, not the player's evening.
6. Save the terms as they stood on the day. A dated screenshot of the bonus and withdrawal clauses is the single most useful thing in a dispute. Reason: terms change, and the ADR provider will rule on the version in force when the issue arose — eCOGRA's figures show 72.3 per cent of its invalid disputes had not been through the operator's own complaints procedure first, so evidence and sequence both matter.

For anyone who needs to stop rather than start: registering with GamStop Online blocks every British-licensed online operator for six months, one year, five years or five years with auto-renewal, and once registered it cannot be cancelled during the term. The person can talk it through free of charge with the National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133, run by GamCare and open 24 hours a day, every day of the year — 0808 2819 265 for callers in Wales. GamCare is not a crisis line and its staff cannot transfer a caller at immediate risk, so anyone in that position needs emergency services rather than a helpline.

What the Enforcement Numbers Say About the Offshore Trade

There is a temptation, whenever offshore sites are discussed, to talk as though nothing is being done. That is not quite right, and the numbers are more interesting than the slogan. Since April 2024 the Commission's Illegal Markets team has issued 3,140 cease and desist and disruption notices — 2,032 cease and desist notices, 774 registrar referrals, 402 host referrals and three payment provider referrals. Over the same period it referred 447,778 Bing and Google URLs and secured 287,961 removals. In the quarter from July to September 2026 alone it referred 1,835 websites to search engines, covering 7,677,211 URLs, and issued 546 cease and desist notices.

The effectiveness data is the part worth keeping. Across 160 illegal gambling websites for which traffic data existed, engagement fell an average of 32 per cent after disruption. Broken down by method, registrar blocks and website suspensions each produced an average fall of 91 per cent, and GEO IP blocking 60 per cent. Search-engine removal managed 30 per cent from Google and 52 per cent from Bing — useful, but the Commission is candid that removing a site from search makes it harder to find rather than impossible to reach. The Commission also refers illegal content to Meta, TikTok, X and YouTube, and began reporting payment transaction data to the Visa Operator Scheme after its first referral in January 2025 following a test purchase.

Prosecution is the weak flank. Across the year from April 2025 to March 2026, every quarter recorded zero or one prosecutions commenced, a total of one, in October to December 2025. That is the honest picture: persistent disruption, near-zero criminal enforcement against operators sitting outside the jurisdiction. It is a reason to weigh the licence apparently rather than trust that someone upstream will.

Meanwhile the trade itself keeps moving. H2 Gambling Capital estimated in May 2026 that stakes with illegal gambling operators in the UK reached £16.6 billion in 2025, up from about £5 billion in 2019, with the proportion of gambling happening legally falling from 97 per cent to 92 per cent over that period. The Commission's own survey work, published 5 November 2026, found that among respondents who had gambled online in the past four weeks, an estimated 2.5 per cent had engaged with an illegal gambling website, with a further 1.5 per cent having done so in the past 12 months. Among the whole adult population, including non-gamblers, 94.4 per cent showed no indication of using one.

What Bonus Small Print Costs

Bonuses are where a bad operator and a good one look most alike, because both print a headline number and neither prints the wagering requirement in the banner. The British cap is a genuine improvement and it arrived recently: since 19 January 2026, social responsibility code 5.1.1 prohibits wagering requirements above 10× and prohibits mixing product types inside one incentive. The Commission's reasoning for choosing a cap rather than a ban is worth recording, because it was pragmatic rather than theatrical — it judged that an outright ban would make licensees highly likely to introduce terms preventing customers cashing out bonuses, and it wanted to remove the extremes, having seen requirements as high as 60×.

Offshore terms are different in kind rather than merely in degree. The Commission's fair-terms guidance in the British market requires that wagering not attach to play with a deposit balance, that deposit and bonus balances always be displayed separately, and that a customer be allowed to withdraw their deposit balance at any time including when a bonus is pending. Offshore, a sticky bonus — one that can be wagered but never withdrawn and is removed at cashout — remains normal. Cashout caps are normal too: one licensed operator's terms limit withdrawals from bonus-derived winnings, including free spins and cashback, to 300 per cent of the credited bonus amount, with the excess voided. Maximum bets while wagering are set as a percentage of the deposit. And bonus abuse clauses often reserve to the operator the discretion to decide when play breaches them — which is precisely the kind of term the Commission's guidance forbids, requiring promotional-play restrictions to specify the prohibited patterns of play rather than leave discretion with the house.

There is a further structural point that rarely appears in offer comparisons. In the British market, promotions must be marketed in line with social responsibility code 5.1.9, which requires significant conditions to be shown transparently and prominently, and where displayed online, in full no further than one click away. A headline offer whose conditions sit four clicks deep is not a British-licensed offer being badly marketed; it is a marketing pattern the rules exist to stop.

One more figure for perspective: 0.6 per cent of the whole adult population, including non-gamblers, reported engaging with an illegal gambling site in the past four weeks, and a further 0.4 per cent in the past 12 months. The offshore market is loud and heavily advertised. It is not, on the Commission's evidence, where most British players actually are.

Where Real Differences Sit

The differences that matter are not the ones the marketing leads with. They are whether a licence can be checked on a register, whether a withdrawal clause contains a cap, whether a bonus chain is capped at 10×, whether the funds are ringfenced and rated for insolvency, and whether a dispute ends up in front of an adjudicator who will rule against the house. All five exist in the British market because a regulator wrote them down, and none exist offshore because no one did. The 96.3 per cent automatic clearance rate on 44.2 million withdrawals is not a coincidence; it is what happens when a regulator treats delay as a breach rather than a business model.

Every cluster phrase about "best" on this subject is really a question about protection, because speed and offers are the only things a site can advertise and protections are the only things it cannot take away. What Britain does well is procedural: the licence condition, the cap, the register, the ADR route. What it does badly is enforcement against operators outside its reach, where a year produced one prosecution and 546 cease and desist notices — paperwork fired across a border at people who do not read it.

GamStop recorded 117,756 new registrations during 2025 and had 561,983 active exclusions at the end of that year. In the first half of 2026 registrations rose 16 per cent year on year, with May 2026 setting a monthly record of 12,236 sign-ups, and by July 2026 the register held 614,738 people. The National Gambling Helpline, run by GamCare, is free on 0808 8020 133, 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Those two numbers — 614,738 and 0808 8020 133 — are the most useful pair on this page, and neither of them appears in an offer banner.

Questions About Best Gambling Sites UK

Which are the best gambling sites in the UK?

The ones holding a Gambling Commission licence, because that licence is the only thing that guarantees the protections worth having: GamStop participation since March 2020, a 10× cap on bonus wagering since 19 January 2026, no maximum withdrawal limit on deposit balance under the CMA undertakings, and a free route to a Commission-approved ADR provider. Everything else — game choice, design, live chat speed — is decoration on top of those four.

Are offshore gambling sites legal for British players?

The player commits no offence, but the operator does. Section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005 makes it an offence to provide gambling facilities without an operating licence, and it applies where remote gambling equipment is situated in Great Britain or where the provider knows or should know the facilities are likely to be used here. The Commission states plainly that holding a licence in another jurisdiction does not change this.

Why is my withdrawal taking longer than 24 hours?

Usually one of three things. An identity or source-of-funds check has been triggered by activity the operator considers unusual; a bonus is active and the terms cap or stage the cashout; or the operator is applying friction at the wrong end of the transaction, which the Commission says is not acceptable and gives as grounds for action. Licence condition 17.1.1 forbids demanding at withdrawal what could reasonably have been asked earlier.

Do offshore casinos have better bonuses than British ones?

Bigger headline numbers, longer chains attached. Offshore welcome offers commonly carry 25× to 50× wagering, against a hard British cap of 10×, and cashout caps on bonus-derived winnings are routine — one operator's terms limit them to 300 per cent of the bonus credited, voiding the rest. A sticky bonus, wagered but never withdrawable, remains standard offshore and is effectively impossible under British fair-terms guidance.

Can I use crypto at a UK-licensed casino?

Some accept it, and the payment method itself is lawful, but the protections thin out at the edge. Deposits must come through a method whose provider is a payment service provider under the Payment Services Regulations 2017, credit cards have been banned since 14 April 2020, and bank gambling blocks — offered by eleven named banks and applied at card level — do not exist in a wallet transfer. Transfers on-chain are effectively irreversible, and there is no chargeback.

What happens if an operator refuses to pay out?

In the British market the sequence is fixed: the operator's own complaints procedure first, then a free referral to a Commission-approved ADR provider if the matter is unresolved after eight weeks — that route is required by social responsibility code 6.1.1. IBAS reports 100 per cent operator compliance with decisions in the consumer's favour across both 2023-24 and 2024-25. Offshore, there is no equivalent route compellable in Great Britain.

Where This Leaves the Choice

The best gambling sites in the UK are best because of rules that were written down and can be checked, not because of anything in a banner — and the single most useful number on this page is 96.3 per cent, the share of 44.2 million withdrawals that cleared automatically between June and September 2024.

Anyone who needs to stop rather than shop can register with GamStop Online free of charge: the block lasts six months, one year, five years or five years with auto-renewal, cannot be cancelled during that term, and stays in place after it ends until the person contacts GamStop to remove it. For free and confidential support at any time, you can reach the National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133.