Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 33628

Dental Services and Veterinary Services: Access and Prices

Tabled: 25 February 2025
Answered: 5 March 2025

Question

James Naish

Labour — Rushcliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of consolidating dental and veterinary practices into corporate chains on (a) pricing and (b) consumer access; and whether he plans to instruct

Answer

Justin Madders
Under competition law, responsibility for investigating individual and market-wide competition issues, including consolidation, falls to the Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA"), the UK's competition authority. The Government has ensured th...
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