Secondary Ticketing Platforms

Part of Consumer Rights Bill (Programme) (No. 3) – in the House of Commons at 6:30 pm on 12 January 2015.

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Photo of David Nuttall David Nuttall Conservative, Bury North 6:30, 12 January 2015

If those organisations want to ensure that the tickets are being used by the clubs, that is for them to deal with. We have seen what happened with the Rugby Football Union. The tickets are sent to the clubs, supposedly for use by the grass roots, and they are then sold on by the clubs. The tickets get leaked out into the open market. We cannot interfere with the free market; that is a fact of life. No matter how we dress it up or what legislation we introduce, tickets will find a way to be sold at the market price—what somebody is prepared to pay for it.