Ticket Sales: Dynamic Pricing

Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate Excerpts

Wednesday 11th September 2024 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Twycross (Lab)]

Dynamic pricing is not illegal. Businesses must follow consumer protection law when they engage with their consumers using dynamic pricing.

[Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate (Con)]

My Lords, a number of us have been very disappointed at being unable to obtain tickets for Oasis concerts, yet we are concerned that a number of members of the Front Bench of the Government elsewhere have appeared on television claiming that they have obtained tickets. Can the Minister kindly confirm that no special provisions were in place to give those people an advantage over mere mortals like ourselves?

[Baroness Twycross (Lab)]

I cannot speak for Front-Benchers to whom I have not spoken, but I know that a number of my noble friends on the Government Benches in this House spent, as I said, a ridiculous amount of time trying to get tickets on the day and failed miserably.