Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 113826

Tickets: Sales

Tabled: 20 February 2026
Answered: 2 March 2026

Question

Mr Louie French

ConservativeOld Bexley and Sidcup

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

Kate Dearden
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...

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