PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Competition and Markets Authority: Staff (19 April 2022)

As a non-ministerial department, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is responsible for managing its own resources and for ensuring that it has adequate staffing levels to fulfil its commitments. Government is supporting the CMA with additional funding to hire skilled staff to carry out its new functions. At the last Spending Review, the CMA received an increase to its budget to support the roll-out of the Digital Markets Unit. Dependent on legislative progress of the proposed digital competition regime, by 2024-25 the CMA will have a budget of £130.5 million.

The CMA is directly accountable to Parliament and reports on its staffing levels and remuneration in its annual report.