Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 113825
Tickets: Sales
Tabled: 20 February 2026
Answered: 2 March 2026
Question
Mr Louie French
Conservative — Old Bexley and Sidcup
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department’s plan to ban for-profit ticket resale will apply to (a) tickets sold through peer-to-peer messaging platforms and (b) tickets sold through encrypted peer-to-peer messaging platf
Answer
Kate DeardenThe 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...
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