Scottish Government devices were used to access the Oasis Ticketmaster website nearly 10,000 times on the day tickets went on sale, The Courier can reveal.
Eager fans inside the government used official laptops and mobiles to visit the web pages for the Scottish leg of Liam and Noel Gallagher’s reunion tour.
Government servers clocked a total of 9,078 hits to the pages where tickets for the three Edinburgh dates could be purchased on August 31.
The figures come after SNP health chief Neil Gray admitted he had joined to queue for the tickets while chairing a panel discussing Alzheimer’s disease at his party’s annual conference.
He conceded he was attempting to purchase tickets during the meeting after initially branding the claim “total nonsense”.
The data released to The Courier under Freedom of Information laws showed 1,014 visits to the main Ticketmaster Oasis page.
The August 8 2025 date at the capital’s Murrayfield Stadium was the most popular among government staff, with 3,263 visits.
A total of 2,302 visits were recorded for August 9 and 2,499 were recorded for August 12.
It is not known how many individual civil servants – or any other politicians – accessed the Ticketmaster sites for Oasis tickets as some of the nearly 10,000 hits may have been repeat visits.
Most government officials have access to a laptop and a mobile phone due to increased levels of home working.
Those lucky enough to make it to the front of queue were forced to shell out up to £355 for the in-demand tickets.
The original £135 price tag was inflated due to controversial “dynamic” pricing.
A Scottish Government spokesman said the data relates to a computer network accessed by nearly 50 different public sector organisations.
He added: “The number of Scottish Government users was 180 out of 22,500 system users.
“Scottish Government staff can use devices for personal use if this is within their own time, for example during the weekend or a lunchbreak.
“This is subject to restrictions on certain activities such as running a personal website or attempting to access inappropriate material online.”
Scottish Conservative MSP Alexander Stewart said: “This appears to be a blatant abuse of government resources. Most ordinary Scots outwith the Holyrood bubble won’t have had access to multiple devices in this way to try and secure Oasis tickets which were like gold dust.
“The SNP Government must come clean as to why there was such extensive use of government devices to access Ticketmaster.
“It should have been common sense for them all to only use personal devices for something like this.”
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