London 2012 Olympics: LOCOG 'damaging trust over ticket sales secrecy' Millions of sports fans were left disappointed when Olympic tickets went on sale last April. A balloting system, designed to be fair, meant that there were over 20 million applications for the available public tickets. The booking process was beset with technical glitches due to the high demand, and the deadline to apply for tickets had to be extended to cope with a last-minute surge. Meanwhile the website used in last month's resale process for unwanted tickets also suffered from technical glitches. However despite the wide-held perception that tickets to all Olympic events were sold out, it emerged recently that only a third of tickets to football matches around the UK had been sold. In its report, the ECS committee has demanded more information from LOCOG. In 2010 LOCOG indicated that of the 8.8 million tickets to be sold, 2.5 million would cost £20 or less. The tickets are part of a complicated banding structure, where prices range from £20 to £725 depending on the event and the stage of the games. LOCOG said that it intended to make the distribution of tickets roughly equal across each Olympic venue, thereby ensuring that cheap access is possible at every event. However the ECS committee said that is has received no confirmation that this has happened. The ECS committee has also asked LOCOG how many tickets have been sold so far at each price point. Again, it said it has not received answers. Dee Doocey, the chair of the ECS committee, said: "We always knew that ticket allocation would be difficult and would disappoint some people. But if LOCOG had been open and transparent right from the start, a lot of public suspicion and anger could have been avoided. LOCOG's legal status should not excuse them from the transparency and openness we expect in other areas of public life. The ECS committee also wants LOCOG to publish details of the total number of tickets bought by official sponsors for each event, and for sponsors to say how many of their tickets will be made available to the public through promotional activity. It is known that 700,000 tickets have been made available to sponsors. The committee has also asked for assurances that LOGOC will not oversell the 3 million tickets remaining, as it did with the synchronized swimming due to a technical glitch. It also wants to ensure that pledges are kept for free tickets to carers who are accompanying spectators with high-dependency needs. A LOCOG spokesman said that the organisation is "committed to providing a full breakdown of ticket sales." However he said that the "best time to do this is once we have completed the final sales process. He said: "We still have over 3 million Olympic and Paralympic tickets to sell and our priority is to get these into the hands of sports fans. We are firmly committed to providing 75 per cent of the total number of Olympic tickets to the British public, and if we can deliver more than this, we will. The ECS committee has written to the Olympic Board - whose members include London Mayor Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and Lord Coe, the chair of LOCOG - as well as the Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson demanding the release of the data. It has asked LOCOG to provide the information by 27 February prior to a meeting in March.