Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 61475

Supermarkets: Supply Chains

Tabled: 19 June 2025
Answered: 27 June 2025

Question

Sarah Gibson

Liberal DemocratChippenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that fair dealing improvements under Grocery Supply Code of Practice are extended to upstream suppliers who are not covered by the Code.

Answer

Justin Madders
The Groceries Code is a competition measure owned by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The CMA can only change the Code in ways which address the specific effects on competition found during its original market investigation, and not to address...

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