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Unfair Practices: Competition

Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN HL10028, tabled on 4 September 2018

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to continue to sanction in accordance with EU law large corporations who abuse their dominant market position after Brexit.

Answered on

17 September 2018

The Competition Act 1998 contains prohibitions equivalent to those in EU law. After EU exit, companies found to abuse a dominant market position in the UK will be sanctioned under the Competition Act.

Answered by

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy