Question follow-through · 58103

Supermarkets: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he is taking steps to prevent consumers who do not opt in to supermarket loyalty schemes from being charged higher prices.

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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Answering body: Department for Business and Trade
Tabled: 6 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 10 Jun 2025
Answer: 16 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

6 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he is taking steps to prevent consumers who do not opt in to supermarket loyalty schemes from being charged higher prices.
10 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2025
Answer published
In 2024, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) undertook a review into loyalty pricing in the groceries sector, publishing their findings in November 2024. The CMA found that shoppers who are members of a loyalty scheme can almost always make a genu...

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