Question follow-through · 47846
Technology: Monopolies
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle monopolistic practices in the technology sector.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 2 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle monopolistic practices in the technology sector.
28 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 May 2025
Answer published
On 1 January 2025 the Government implemented the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. The Competition and Markets Authority now has new bespoke tools to address the market power of a small number of the largest technology firms and increas...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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