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London 2012 wants to raise between £20m and £50m from Paralympic tickets as part of its overall £500m revenue target from all Olympic and Paralympic ticket sales.
With more than a week remaining, Rio 2016 Paralympic ticket sales have already surpassed those of Beijing, which sold 1.5m seats, and organisers predicted the figure would break through the 2m mark by either Tuesday night or yesterday morning.
But has the extraordinary demand for seats also led to a spike in Paralympic ticket sales?
"This is the first one where we have had a lot of publicity build-up, which is exciting, "The Paralympic ticket sales, one million sold a year out - this is unprecedented and I think there is a special relationship between the British public and the Paralympic movement".
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9 September Paralympic tickets on sale.
Interest in Paralympic tickets – many of which cost less than £2 – are far below expectations.
Fewer than half the tickets for the Olympics and less than 15% of Paralympic tickets have been sold.
Ten people have been charged with offences relating to Olympic and Paralympic tickets since the Games opened, Scotland Yard said.
A second tranche of Paralympic tickets will go on sale "probably pretty shortly after that", according to Deighton.
On Friday, the remaining 1m Paralympic tickets will go on sale on a first come, first served basis.
With demand for Paralympic tickets set to result in the first-ever sold-out Paralympic Games, illegal touts will be looking to cash in.
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