Jim Shannon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-01-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what process was used for administering the ballot for tickets to the Thiepval Memorial event on 1 July 2016; whether observers were appointed to scrutinise that process; and if he will make a statement.

Tracey Crouch

Applicants were required to submit details online, or via a postal form, between 28 September and 18 November 2015. Once the ballot closed, a computer system randomly selected the successful applicants by their reference numbers – so that no weighting was added to any other factor such as geographic location or date of application.

The ballot was administered by an external company, SEE Tickets, with previous experience of the managing ticketing and ballots for large scale events. No additional observers were involved in the draw process.