Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 92807

Large Goods Vehicles: Small Businesses

Tabled: 19 November 2025
Answered: 28 November 2025

Question

Joe Robertson

ConservativeIsle of Wight East

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the cost to SME hauliers of prices set by major lorry manufacturers.

Answer

Keir Mather

Ensuring that consumers and SMEs are only required to pay fair prices is of the utmost importance and is a key feature of truly competitive markets. The UK has a robust competition enforcement landscape to ensure that this is achieved, both through public enforcement by the Competition and Markets Authority and private enforcement routes through litigation.