Written questions

Tickets: Sales

Commons · Question 19896 · Tabled 28 Aug 2026 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · Official record

Answered 25 Sep 2026

Question

Asked by Sharon Hodgson

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what progress her Department has made in (a) reforming the secondary ticketing market and (b) preventing the resale of live event tickets for profit.

Answer

Answered by Ian Murray, 25 Sep 2026

We are fully committed to putting fans first by ending the scourge of industrial-scale ticket touting and protecting consumers on the secondary ticketing market. We announced legislative plans in the King’s Speech briefing to prohibit the resale of a live...