Question follow-through · 98331
Warner Bros Discovery: Takeovers
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for UK competition policy of the proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 8 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for UK competition policy of the proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
10 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2025
Answer published
Under competition law, responsibility for investigating the impact of mergers and acquisitions on competition falls to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s independent competition authority. The Government has ensured that the CMA has sig...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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