Music Week says that the government is close to responding on that previously reported report from the parliamentary select committee for culture, media and sport into that thing they call secondary ticketing, which called on the websites and agencies that have enabled the rapid growth of online ticket touting to "clean up their act".
The report said the ticket resale market needed to better service the interests of consumers and artists, but recommended a voluntary system of regulation rather than legislation. Proposals for such voluntary systems have since been forthcoming - in particular the management and promoter back Resale Rights Society idea - though the ticketing sites are so far not keen on signing up.
It remains to be seen if the government will try to encourage settlement by threatening new laws - but we do know the government should be giving its delayed take on the whole issue in the context of the select committee's report, very soon, next week probably.