Member

Amendment 62, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Addington, would remove the ability of the Competition and Markets Authority to enforce a ticket touting offence in the Bill and would instead confer enforcement powers on National Trading Standards. The noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, also made this point. I am not aware of any examples of National Trading Standards being provided with powers to directly enforce offences beyond those available to local trading standards authorities, which receive funding for priority projects from National Trading Standards. In fact, I think the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, made a point about power going to the Competition and Markets Authority, not National Trading Standards.