gambling public register

A gambling public register is the regulator's authoritative list of who may legally offer gambling - published in bulk, not just browsable. In Great Britain it is the UK Gambling Commission's 'Public Register of Licensed Businesses'.

The catalog record quantifies it: 2,658 licensed businesses, 18,684 personal licence holders, and 8,862 premises, plus regulatory actions and public statements - free as CSV, Excel and ZIP. The business register ZIP weighs about 627 KB, small enough to ingest wholesale on a schedule. Content spans the licensing stack: operating businesses (premises-licence locations among them), individuals holding personal licences, and enforcement outcomes in the form of regulatory-action records and public statements. One privacy mechanic matters for address-based analysis: head-office addresses can be suppressed on request, so premise-level geocoding is stronger evidence than registered-office location.

Compared with American state-level sources such as the nevada gaming abstract, the register is licensing-side data rather than revenue data.

Registers answer eligibility, not performance - and conflating the two is the sector's most common analytical error. A business appearing in the register is licensed; the register says nothing about its revenue or footfall.

Used correctly, it powers compliance screening: verifying counterparty licences before onboarding, monitoring new entrants weekly, and tracking enforcement through regulatory actions. Used wrongly, it becomes a market-size proxy and overcounts activity, because licensing breadth reflects regulatory scope, not commercial scale. Practical pitfalls follow from the format: CSV snapshots need timestamping to detect changes between pulls; personal-licence holder counts (18,684) outnumber businesses (2,658), so entity resolution must separate people from firms; and suppressed head-office addresses mean firmographic enrichment should not assume complete location data. Buyers comparing jurisdictions should also note the register covers GB licensing - revenue-side metrics require different sources entirely.

1. Download the full register, not samples. The business register ZIP is about 627 KB and free as CSV, Excel and ZIP - partial extracts invite staleness.
2. Separate the entity types before joining. 2,658 licensed businesses, 18,684 personal licence holders and 8,862 premises are different populations with different keys.
3. Timestamp every pull for change detection. Regulatory actions and licence grants accumulate continuously; diff consecutive snapshots to see movement.

Entries covering the licensing objects inside the register:

• premises-licence
• regulatory-action
• nevada gaming abstract
• casino property profile
• gaming concessionaire
• gaming device count
• gaming win
• gross gambling yield
• gross revenue from games of fortune
• historical odds snapshot
• internet gaming
• odds market type
• premises licence
• regulatory action
• sports wagering
• visitor profile study