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Premier League Tickets

Miss Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if she will refer the pricing regime of premier league football tickets for the 1996-97 season to the Office of Fair Trading. [30248]

Mr. Sproat [holding answer 21 May 1996]: I have no plans to refer the ticket pricing regime of the premier league to the Office of Fair Trading as I have no evidence of either monopoly abuse or anti-competitive practice by clubs in the league.

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