Gambling Harm Treatment and Support in Scotland: Current provisions and future directions

Declaration of interest

DU declares no conflict of interest in relation to this publication. For the past three years, she has been exclusively funded as a member of staff at the University of Glasgow by the Wellcome Trust through a Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowship to Professor Heather Wardle, Blackburn with Darwen Local Authority, UKRI Impact Acceleration Account via the University of Glasgow and the Scottish Government.

HW declares no conflict of interest in relation to this publication. In the last 3 years she has been funded for gambling studies by UKRI, NIHR, Wellcome, The Gambling Commission (including regulatory settlement funds), DCMS, Public Health England/Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Greater London Authority, Blackburn with Darwen Local Authority and Gambling Research Exchange Ontario. She runs a consultancy for public and third sector organisations. This includes Middlesbrough Council, Institute of Public Health, Ireland and National Institute for Economic and Social Research. She has received travel bursaries from the Turkish Green Crescent Society, the French and Dutch gambling regulators and the Gambling Regulators European Forum. She does not provide services to the gambling industry. She has no structural collaborations within the gambling industry. She declares occasional attendance at events where representatives of the gambling industry are present.

FL declares no conflict of interest in relation to this publication. She was a paid member of the Gambling Commission lived experience advisory panel from 2020 to 2022. From 2021 to 2024, she was funded as a PhD student at the University of Glasgow by The Alliance Health and Social Care, Scotland. Between 2023 and 2025, she was a lived experience co-investigator on a NIHR funded project at the University of Lincoln. Since January 2025, she has been employed as a research assistant to Professor Heather Wardle, funded by AFSG/GREO and the University of Glasgow.

LM declares no conflict of interest in relation to this publication. For the work included in this report, she was funded by the Scottish Government. She additionally declares consultancy work undertaken for Peers for Gambling Reform via the DGA Group in June 2025, at which time she was employed within the Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, and funded by the Medical Research Council and Chief Scientist Office.

HB declares no conflict of interest in relation to this publication. For the past 7.5 years, she has been exclusively funded as a member of staff at the Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen).