Summary
This paper, 'Government Response
to the Culture, Media and Sport
Select Committee Report on Ticket Touting' (Cm. 7346), presents the Government's response to the January 2008 Culture, Media and Sport Committee Report 'Ticket Touting' (HC 202).
The Committee's Report examined the whole ticket market, looking at attitudes to secondary selling, the scale of the secondary market, legislation relevant to secondary selling, and what the industries had done to tackle touting.
The Committee agreed with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's (DCMS) view that regulatory intervention should only be introduced as a last resort. Instead, the Committee welcomed the emergence of a system whereby those responsible for providing events would be able to share in the profits made in the secondary market. This move towards constructive dialogue between creators and secondary marketers was welcomed and the Committee called upon all interested parties to get involved and seek a voluntary solution.
In this response, the Government agrees with many of the conclusions and recommendations made by the Committee, particularly that the secondary sale of free tickets (for charitable events) should be prevented. The Government also reiterates it's intention to use legislation as a last resort only.
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