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Ticket Touting

I shall answer that head-on by saying that there were issues for small booksellers then. But if the hon. Gentleman looks at the Competition Commission's investigations, there are ongoing concerns about whether supermarkets, such as the hon. Gentleman's former employer, are anti-competitive when selling things below the cost of production simply as loss-leaders to invite people in. So there may yet be an issue there. But what the OFT has succeeded in doing now, finally, with the bank charges is at least the first step. I wonder whether the hon. Member for Shipley, with his ““all's fair in love and war, the state should stay out of it”” attitude, thinks that the OFT should have taken that case in the first place and should have stood up for consumers in the way that some of us would like the Government or the OFT to stand up for consumers of sports and music events.