Tickets: Sales
Commons · Question 113826 · Tabled 20 Feb 2026 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record
Answered 2 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by Louie French
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of restricting ticket resales via peer-to-peer messaging applications on user privacy and encryption.
Answer
Answered by Kate Dearden, 2 Mar 2026
The government has recently announced plans to introduce a price cap on the resale of live events tickets, which will make it illegal for tickets to be resold for more than their original cost.Our intention is that all businesses that facilitate the resal...