As expected, The UK government's report into the secondary ticketing market has said the current situation is wrong, wrong, wrong, but has done little to address the situation other than issue a strongly worded message to the ticket touting sector.

As expected, The UK government's report into the secondary ticketing market has said the current situation is wrong, wrong, wrong, but has done little to address the situation other than issue a strongly worded message to the ticket touting sector.

As previously reported, the report from the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee is the latest investigation into the growth of ticketing touting in the online age, and in particular the resale of tickets via internet auctions website like eBay or those specifically set up for ticket auctions like Viagogo.

The report says that the auction websites, who take a cut when people resell tickets for profit, are currently exploiting music fans, who miss out on tickets from official sources and are then forced to pay hiked up prices on auction sites. The MPs said the resale sector should "clean up their act" with a voluntary code of conduct that properly addressed their concerns. Without naming names, they added that "some secondary sellers indulged in dubious or suspect practices". They also criticised live music promoters for having shoddy returns services which forced legit fans who suddenly couldn't make a gig to resell their tickets via auction sites. The Committe was against legislation banning touting with Committee chairman John Whittingdale said it was "neither practical nor in the interests of consumers" to ban ticket resales calling instead for a "voluntary solution".