{"id":509086,"date":"2026-04-02T14:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509086\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:44:11","slug":"our-response-to-the-department-for-business-and-trades-consultation-on-proposals-to-refine-the-uk-competition-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509086\/","title":{"rendered":"Our response to the Department for Business and Trade\u2019s consultation on proposals to refine the UK competition regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In our response, we welcome the UK Government\u2019s engagement with businesses and advisers on reforming the competition framework. We provide detailed comments on Department for Business and Trade&#8217;s (&#8220;DBT&#8221;) proposed changes to merger control, market investigations and remedies, Competition Market Authority (&#8220;CMA&#8221;) governance and accountability, information\u2011gathering powers, and the role of the Secretary of State in CMA guidance. Our response also considers the implications of these reforms for business confidence, investment and the UK\u2019s position as a leading competition jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Download our full response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In our response, we welcome the UK Government\u2019s engagement with businesses and advisers on reforming the competition framework.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-509086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}