Justice written question – answered at on 11 September 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice
(1) how many people were convicted for illegally reselling tickets for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in each month of 2012; and what the average fine levied was for such convictions;
(2) how many applications for convictions have been made for people suspected of illegally reselling tickets for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games outside the UK;
(3) how many people have been convicted of illegally reselling tickets for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games outside the UK;
(4) how many convictions for illegally reselling tickets for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games were subjected to an application for further fines under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002; and what the (a) average and (b) total amount collected was.
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This publication provides provisional management information for all Olympic related criminal proceedings currently going through criminal courts and the number of proceedings which have been fast tracked. The report is available on the ministry's website at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/statistics/ad-hoc/provisional-olympic-stats.pdf.
To enable timely reporting of information on offences related to the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics a limited amount of data have been collated.
It is therefore not possible to provide the additional information requested.
Regarding the information requested concerning the illegal resale of tickets for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games outside the United Kingdom, the Ministry of Justice holds statistical data relating to those prosecuted in courts in England and Wales, however information is not collated centrally on the particulars of an offence other than where specified in statute. This information could be obtained only by manually inspecting each court file for the particulars of the case at disproportionate cost.
Therefore, we are unable to provide this information.
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