Asked by: Barbara Keeley (Labour - Worsley and Eccles South)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to correspondence from the Minister for Enterprise, Markets and Small Business entitled Government response to CMA's report on secondary ticketing, published 10 May 2023, whether her Department sought advice from the (a) live music industry and (b) artists to inform its response to the secondary ticketing report.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The government has regular discussions with external stakeholders including the live music industry but other than with regulators, none of these were specific to the government’s response to the CMA’s report on secondary ticketing.
The CMA report was issued during a period when this department was consulting more broadly on consumer protection issues, but few of these respondents made any reference to secondary ticketing or the CMA recommendations.