Source · National Audit Office
The UK competition regime
Published: 5 Feb 2016
Type: Value for Money
Department: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
The newly-created Competition and Markets Authority has made significant progress in improving how the UK’s competition regime works, and it is now more coherent than before. Business awareness of competition law, however, is low and while it has improved the robustness of its enforcement casework, the regime has so far not produced a substantial flow of enforcement decisions or fines.