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Consumers: Protection

Commons · Question 94442 · Tabled 25 Nov 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 3 Dec 2025

Question

Asked by Amanda Martin

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) document entitled Improving Trader recommendation platforms: consumer law compliance advice for businesses, published on 12 November 2024

Answer

Answered by Kate Dearden, 3 Dec 2025

The Competition and Markets Authority's decision-making is independent of government. Each parliament the government issues a Strategic Steer to the CMA setting out its priorities for the CMA and the wider policy objectives to which it should have regard....