Select committee: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee
Conclusion 1
3rd Report – Competition and market functioning in the UK live music industry
Published 24 May 2026
Addressed to Department for Business and Trade
Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Competition and market functioning in the UK live music industry All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
Since the CMA merger investigation in 2010, evidence suggests that vertically integrated companies have built and maintained a dominant position in the UK’s live music market. We conclude that the evidence gathered through our work on the live music industry, including evidence to this report, has sufficiently demonstrated that Live Nation and other vertically integrated companies in the UK live music industry are able to behave outside of normal competition constraints. This has harmed competition in the live music industry in the UK and warrants further investigation. (Conclusion, Paragraph 25)
From: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, 3rd Report – Competition and market functioning in the UK live music industry (HC 128), 24 May 2026
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 18 October 2026 (deadline 24 July 2026).