Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 88749

NHS: ICT

Tabled: 10 November 2025
Answered: 13 November 2025
Named Day

Question

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

LabourTooting

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NHS IT suppliers with dominant market positions do not engage in anti-competitive practices.

Answer

Kate Dearden
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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