Written questions

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...