Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 98641
Veterinary Services
Tabled: 9 December 2025
Answered: 15 December 2025
Named DayQuestion
Samantha Niblett
Labour — South Derbyshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of veterinary market consolidation by large veterinary groups on client choice, pricing and local competition.
Answer
Kate DeardenResponsibility for investigating individual and market-wide competition issues, including consolidation, falls to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) as the UK’s independent competition authority. The CMA is currently conducting a market investiga...
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