Part of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 November 2018.
Kelly Tolhurst
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
12:00,
20 November 2018
I thank my hon. Friend for his question. He is absolutely right: one of the things that we are committed to is making sure that we continue with our world-renowned competition regime. It is right that, even at a ministerial level, we are independent of the CMA, but we work very closely with the CMA on priorities, and looking at supply chains is a key area for all mergers, as is how we protect consumers and markets in future.