Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 51526

Beet Sugar: Competition

Tabled: 12 May 2025
Answered: 20 May 2025

Question

Nick Timothy

ConservativeWest Suffolk

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

Justin Madders
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...

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