Online constituted 33 percent of all UK gambling last year

UK Gambling Commission figures just released make for interesting reading:

* Overall gross gambling yield over the last decade has grown 161 percent and is now GBP 13.44 billion annually (as at 2016);

* Online action accounts for 33 percent of all UK gambling;

* There are 34,000 Fixed Odds Betting Machines in retail betting shops across the nation, generating GGR of GBP1.8 billion between October 2015 and September 2016, or 13 percent of all gambling industry revenue;

* Last year there were 8,788 retail betting shops operating in the UK, along with 583 bingo halls;

* Last year, the UK gambling industry as a whole employed 106,678 people.

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