Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many people were (a) investigated, (b) referred to the Crown Prosecution Service and (c) successfully prosecuted for crimes related to ticket fraud in the last full year for which figures are available.

Criminal investigations are undertaken by the Police. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold any record of volumes of criminal investigations of ticket fraud offences .

The CPS also does not record the number of suspects referred to it, or defendants prosecuted, for offences related to ticket fraud. This could encompass a wide range of offences and to obtain details of the number of suspects referred and defendants prosecuted for offences related to ticket fraud, would require a manual review of individual case files which would incur a disproportionate cost.