Early Day Motion·EDM 714

COMPETITION COMMISSION, SUPERMARKETS AND PRODUCERS

23 January 200736 Signatures

Motion Text

That this House tentatively welcomes the Competition Commission's emerging thinking on its review of the dominance of the supermarkets in the market place; calls on the Competition Commission to keep in mind the poor and unfair prices often paid to farmers, especially dairy farmers, for their commodities in the United Kingdom; and further calls for other supermarkets to follow the lead of Waitrose and Marks and Spencer, who pay a fair price for milk whereby the farmer is paid the production price for the milk produced.