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POLL: Will the Government ever pass legislation restricting the second-hand ticket market?

Rhian Jones
Tickets

POLL: The secondary ticketing market is one heavily debated issue in the live sector.

Over the last six years there have been six attempts to change the law to restrict the resale of event tickets in the UK.  All efforts failed to convince the government to take action.

Yet Nick Downing, Detective Superintendent at Operation Podium - the Met’s response to crime affecting the economy of the London Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012 – has said the issue is a “multi million, billion pound problem."

Do you think the government will ever take action? Or is it up to the industry itself to find ways of combating the market? Answer our poll below...

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Tags: live, secondary ticketing, Nick Downing

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