Beet Sugar: Competition
Commons · Question 51526 · Tabled 12 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record
Answered 20 May 2025
Question
Asked by Nick Timothy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to prevent anti-competitive practices in the domestic beet sugar industry.
Answer
Answered by Justin Madders, 20 May 2025
The Competition and Markets Authority, the “CMA”, is responsible for investigating anti-competitive practices. As an independent authority, the CMA has discretion to investigate competition cases which, according to its prioritisation principles, it consi...