PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Veterinary Services: Unfair Practices (19 June 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to tackle exploitative practices by out of hours vet care providers which operate monopolies of practice over large geographical areas.

Asked by:
Lee Anderson (Reform UK)

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is the independent non-Ministerial department responsible for investigating competition issues in the UK. The Government has ensured that the CMA has significant powers to investigate and act if it finds that companies are behaving anti-competitively in a market. Individuals can report anti-competitive behaviour by emailing the CMA at [email protected].

Answered by:
Victoria Prentis (Conservative)
29 June 2020