Major change to law proposed over maximum ticket prices after Oasis backlash

Labour MP Rupa Huq said she wants the instrumentality changed to amended transparency connected pricing and forestall fans being ripped off

A caller instrumentality has been projected to guarantee fans cognize the maximum terms of tickets pursuing the Oasis backlash.

The projected Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill is designed to tackle "dynamic pricing" which near galore Oasis supporters paying much than expected for reunion gig tickets. Labour MP Rupa Huq has tabled this measure successful the House of Commons with the purpose to found wide pricing and support euphony lovers from being taken vantage of.

Despite each tickets for the Oasis 2025 UK and Ireland circuit selling out, concerns were raised erstwhile prices for modular tickets accrued from £148 to a steep £355. The Britpop legends assertion they were unaware that dynamic pricing would beryllium successful play, whereas Ticketmaster stated that “all summons prices are acceptable by the tour".

As the Government and the Competition and Markets Authority vow to research the substance further, Ealing Central and Acton’s MP, Rupa Huq, said: "As a lifelong euphony fan, I, similar galore of the nation, was scandalised to spot the caller concern wherever radical were queuing up for the champion portion of a time to get Oasis tickets."

"And the unit is immense erstwhile you’re refreshing for six hours to find yourself past yet astatine the apical of the queue, you consciousness you person to spell for it, but by past the summons is 5 times the terms of what you thought it was erstwhile advertised."

Ms Huq, who said she watched Oasis unrecorded successful the '90s, is pushing for legislative alteration to support consumers, stating: "From a user extortion constituent of view, our constituents would similar immoderate certainty and truthful this Bill would enshrine successful statute a maximum price."

"It’s a benignant of merchantability of goods thing, that the terms you tin spot erstwhile you commencement the process is the terms you pay. It could beryllium a maximum due to the fact that dynamic summons pricing could spell down arsenic good arsenic up. There should beryllium immoderate certainty, immoderate predictability, peculiarly arsenic we’re successful a cost-of-living crisis."

"But adjacent irrespective of that determination needs to beryllium immoderate fairness successful the process due to the fact that it feels arsenic if the user equilibrium is incorrect and the summons merchants tin virtually treble it, triple it, deliberation of a number, infinity and beyond."

She added: "Some of the starring unit groups and manufacture bodies deliberation it’s precocious clip that this happened due to the fact that fans conscionable shouldn’t beryllium ripped off.This won’t outlaw dynamic pricing, it’s conscionable introducing transparency and certainty due to the fact that determination is simply a spot for the marketplace arsenic well."

With cross-party support, Ms Huq's Bill is acceptable to beryllium considered successful the House of Commons connected December 6. However, without Government backing, its chances of passing successful its existent signifier are slim.

The Government has announced plans to consult connected the secondary summons marketplace successful the autumn. They besides recognised that dynamic pricing tin person its advantages, specified arsenic offering cheaper tickets for aboriginal birds.