Select committee: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee

Recommendation 14

Fourth Report - Post-pandemic economic growth: state aid and post-Brexit competition policy Published 25 Oct 2022 Paragraph 111 Addressed to Department for Business and Trade

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Recommendation (the committee's words)

We therefore request that the Government gives an early indication of the extent to which it expects to use its power under Clause 17 of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill as introduced, and of the likely volume and rate of flow of draft legislative reform orders, so that the Committee can assess whether its working practices will need to change substantially. At the very least, the Committee would need early warning from the Government of each impending draft legislative reform order, in order to ensure effective and prompt scrutiny.

From: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, Fourth Report - Post-pandemic economic growth: state aid and post-Brexit competition policy (HC 759), paragraph 111, 25 October 2022

Government response

Fifth Special Report - State aid and post-Brexit competition policy: Office for the Internal Market response to the Committee’s Fourth Report

The government responded to the whole report on 28 April 2023 (deadline 25 December 2022).

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Third Special Report - Post pandemic economic growth: State aid and post-Brexit competition policy: Responses to the Committee’s Fourth Report of Session 2022–23

Published 10 February 2023.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The Government welcomes the Committee's report, says it agrees that competition, consumer protection and an effective subsidy regime support growth, and refers the recommendations addressed to the CMA to the CMA for a separate response.

On the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill, it states the Bill "will be introduced in the current session", and says it will strengthen consumer protection law through the Bill.
It does not commit to updating the Committee within one year on the subsidy regime, saying it is "unlikely that key lessons will be learned within a single year" but it will update the Committee "as appropriate".
The CMA is to review and report on the subsidy regime's effectiveness, with the first monitoring report "due three years after commencement of the regime, in 2026".
On subsidy control guidance, it says BEIS published statutory guidance, a 'quick guide' and a principles assessment template on 11 November, ahead of commencement in January 2023.

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