Beer: Competition
Business, Innovation and Skills
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the effects of beer ties on competition in the hospitality industry.
Edward Davey (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs), Business, Innovation and Skills; Kingston and Surbiton, Liberal Democrat)
The Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) final decision on CAMRA's super-complaint, published in October 2010, found no evidence of competition problems that are having a significant adverse impact on consumers in the pub industry.