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Written question asked by Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour) on Monday, 21 November 2016, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 24 November 2016 (named day). It was answered by Ben Wallace (Conservative) on Thursday, 24 November 2016 on behalf of the Home Office.


Tickets: Touting

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of the misuse of bots for the harvesting of event tickets through primary ticketing platforms have been reported to the police under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.

Answer

The Home Office does not hold any data or statistics on the number of these incidents.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
53898
Session
2016-17
Subjects
Internet Touting Tickets
Legislation
Computer Misuse Act 1990
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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