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Written question asked by Sharon Hodgson (Labour) on Monday, 22 January 2018, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 24 January 2018. It was answered by Andrew Griffiths (Conservative) on Thursday, 25 January 2018 on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.


Tickets: Touting

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what additional funding has been allocated to National Trading Standards to enforce relevant consumer legislation on secondary ticketing in (a) 2017-18, (b) 2018-19 and (c) 2019-20.

Answer

National Trading Standards have been tasked with investigating potential enforcement cases against sellers and secondary ticketing websites that do not comply with legislation from within their current and forthcoming annual budgets.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy provides National Trading Standards with £13.25m per year for the coordination of regional and national Trading Standards activity in England and Wales. The National Trading Standards Board has allocated £300,000 towards investigation work on ticketing for this current financial year but has not yet allocated budgets for 2018-19 and 2019-20.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
124034
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Consumers Finance Protection Touting Tickets Trading standards
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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