Mentions:
1: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) of Oasis concert tickets, what action they plan to take against (1) dynamic pricing, and (2) other ticket - Speech Link
2: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) who spent a ridiculous number of hours in the queue, only to have the site crash when I got to the ticket - Speech Link
3: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) We committed to taking action on secondary ticket sales during the election, and we are consulting in - Speech Link
4: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) This abuse is wide- spread. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) I rise to support Lords Amendment 104B, which seeks to safeguard fans from the fraudulent abuse that - Speech Link
2: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) abuse, which has done some great work in this area. - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) Only six people have been prosecuted for abuse in this sector, and we want to see more. - Speech Link
Asked by: Paula Barker (Labour - Liverpool Wavertree)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will bring forward proposals to regulate the de facto monopoly of ticket sales by Ticketmaster.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Under competition law, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), as the UK’s competition authority, is responsible for investigating anti-competitive practices such as an abuse of a dominant position. The Government has ensured that the CMA has significant powers to investigate and act if it finds that businesses are behaving anti-competitively in a market. As an independent authority, the CMA has discretion to investigate competition cases which, according to its prioritisation principles, it considers most appropriate.
With respect to the secondary ticketing market, the Government has committed to introducing new consumer protections in relation to ticket resales and we will be launching a consultation in the autumn to seek views on potential options.
Mentions:
1: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda) of the secondary market can lead to artists, promoters and fans all losing out, and abuse is rife.I - Speech Link
2: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) I am speaking in the debate in my capacity as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on ticket abuse - Speech Link
3: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) abuse Lord Moynihan, with the assistance of Lord Clement-Jones, Baroness Jones and others. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) thrown up.At the heart of the Bill is the regulation of the internet in a way that should prevent market abuse - Speech Link
2: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, I declare an interest in having been co-chair of the APPG on Ticket Abuse, my fellow co-chair - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) Abuse, we were able to include certain consumer protections in the ticketing market in the Consumer - Speech Link
4: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) after night, throughout the United Kingdom, are turned away from major events because of the fraudulent abuse - Speech Link
Scrutiny evidence Apr. 17 2024
Committee: Royal Albert Hall Bill [HL] CommitteeFound: abuse ................................ ................................ ...........................
Found: abuse ................................ ................................ ...........................
Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) As the market is locked into a standard, to prevent abuse of the market power, SEP owners are required - Speech Link
2: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) It will be extremely obvious to all noble Lords how open to abuse such a practice is. - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) Their views were expressed in May 2023, but the abuse continues. We need to do something about it. - Speech Link
4: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I declare an interest as co-chair, with Sharon Hodgson MP, of the All-Party Group on Ticket Abuse. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Victoria Prentis (Con - Banbury) abuse joint justice plan. - Speech Link
2: Victoria Prentis (Con - Banbury) abuse joint justice plan. - Speech Link
3: Victoria Prentis (Con - Banbury) close interest in these matters and is, I believe, the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on ticket - Speech Link
4: Andrew Jones (Con - Harrogate and Knaresborough) In addition to the good work he is doing to help prevent online bullying, trolling and abuse, keeping - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) What were some of the dominant factors behind that abuse, and what are the most common forms of abuse - Speech Link
2: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) I will use ticket pricing as an example, because there are now supposed to be advisory boards in place - Speech Link
3: Shaun Bailey (Con - West Bromwich West) We had the example about ticket prices and people basically being told, “This is what your price is going - Speech Link