Clause 4 - Investigations

Part of Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 11:15 am on 11 December 2012.

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Photo of Neil Parish Neil Parish Conservative, Tiverton and Honiton 11:15, 11 December 2012

I think my hon. Friend the Member for St Ives was saying that the groceries code adjudicator should be much more proactive. Over the years, the Office of Fair Trading and all sorts of people have looked at the situation in the grocery trade and the general way that the market works. While there needs to be flexibility in the market, there also need to be, if the adjudicator feels that a case should be investigated, powers for it to do so. It would be a great shame if we missed this opportunity to get the issue right. Before we have tried and fiddled while Rome was burning. I think Rome still burns today.