Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) successful prosecutions there have been under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 on the misuse of bots for the harvesting of event tickets through primary ticketing platforms.

It is not possible to identify from centrally held data the number of defendants prosecuted and convicted under Computer Misuse Act specifically related to misuse of bots for the harvesting of event tickets without incurring disproportionate cost.