Key information
Request reference number: MGLA080124-3776
Date of response:
Summary of request
You requested:
Thank you so much for personally paying and providing such a wonderful extravagant fireworks display especially on behalf of the thousands of legitimate paying customers who couldn't get to see the display as you allowed widespread counterfeit tickets to be validated. Good job, how much did it cost?
Our response:
The budget available for the event was £3.85m, with additional costs being supported by ticket revenue of £1.75m. The GLA does not hold the final costs for the 2023 event – these are still being reconciled.
A significant rise in the number of fake and unauthorised tickets in circulation, as well as non-ticketholders taking a chance on finding a view, led to large crowds arriving at ticket gates and being refused entry. Frustratingly this caused congestion and resulted in delays at a small number of entry points.