Taylor Swift: Sadiq Khan declares tickets 10 days late

Khan attended the star’s concert on 15 August – the first of the second London leg of her Eras tour.

It emerged on Friday that he shared a box with members of his family, a number of City Hall staff, and representatives of an events company who paid for the tickets.

City Hall rules require that he should have declared the gift within 28 days, so by a deadline of 12 September.

But Khan’s team contacted the Greater London Authority’s monitoring officer on 22 September – which was a Sunday.

It was after he had been questioned by journalists during a series of media interviews at the start of Labour’s party conference in Liverpool where he talked about the importance of transparency.

When BBC London asked City Hall about this on Friday, it said that inaccurate information had been entered on the register of gifts and hospitality.

A spokesman for the mayor said: “Any gift accepted by the mayor is declared openly and transparently.

“In this case there has been an administrative error. The updated declaration has been correctly submitted.”

City Hall has not yet explained why the declaration was late.

The mayor defended his receipt of gifts as being part of his role to “bang the drum” for London or “engage with stakeholders”.

On his original entry he said that the tickets from the FA were “a thank you for successful Champions League final delivery” – a reference to the European club football event that was held at Wembley in June.

City Hall claimed that he was offered tickets to watch Taylor Swift by the FA in June but could not attend, and these tickets were erroneously declared for the August concert.

The tickets for the August concert were for a box owned by the FA – paid for by a company called LS Events at an estimated £500 per ticket.

LS Events has previously worked on events with City Hall including the arrangements for the Queen’s funeral and fan zones during sporting events.