Ticket Abuse APPG

First Registered: 30/07/2015 • Last updated on: 20/11/2024

To promote and provide a forum for the discussion of issues relating to the sale and resale of tickets, for events, with a particular focus on devising solutions to the problem of ticket touting.

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4 Current APPG Officers
Sharon Hodgson Portrait
Sharon Hodgson
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Washington and Gateshead South
Joined: 30th July 2015
Lord Moynihan Portrait
Lord Moynihan
Co-Chair
Conservative - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 30th July 2015
1 APPG Membership
Golf
Pete Wishart Portrait
Pete Wishart
Officer
Scottish National Party - Perth and Kinross-shire
Joined: 21st November 2018
4 APPG Memberships
Beer , Intellectual Property , Music , Writers
Baroness Keeley Portrait
Baroness Keeley
Officer
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 20th November 2024
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Mrs Sharon Hodgson MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 5160.

Email: sharon.hodgson.mp@parliament.uk

Group's Website:

https://appgticketabuse.wordpress.com/

No benefits in kind are on record for the Ticket Abuse APPG

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Ticket Abuse APPG

Former APPG Officers
Kevin Brennan Portrait
Kevin Brennan
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Cardiff West
Joined: 21st November 2018
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Alex Sobel Portrait
Alex Sobel
Vice Chair
Labour (Co-op) - Leeds Central and Headingley
Joined: 11th January 2023
Departed: 13th December 2023
5 APPG Memberships
Fair Elections , Music , Net Zero , Ukraine , West Papua
Kerry McCarthy Portrait
Kerry McCarthy
Vice Chair
Labour - Bristol East
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 13th December 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Nick Smith Portrait
Nick Smith
Vice Chair
Labour - Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 13th December 2023
2 APPG Memberships
Film and Broader Screen , Parkrun
Alison Thewliss Portrait
Alison Thewliss
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Former Member for Glasgow Central
Joined: 12th October 2016
Departed: 13th December 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Hannah Bardell Portrait
Hannah Bardell
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Former Member for Livingston
Joined: 11th January 2023
Departed: 13th December 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Nickie Aiken Portrait
Nickie Aiken
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Cities of London and Westminster
Joined: 11th January 2023
Departed: 13th December 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Strasburger Portrait
Lord Strasburger
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 4th November 2020
Departed: 13th December 2023
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Clement-Jones Portrait
Lord Clement-Jones
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 12th October 2016
Departed: 13th December 2023
Stephen McPartland Portrait
Stephen McPartland
Vice Chair
Conservative - Former Member for Stevenage
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships