Question follow-through · 123800
Food: Retail Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of market concentration in the food retail industry on (a) consumers and (b) suppliers.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 25 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 14 Apr 2026 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of market concentration in the food retail industry on (a) consumers and (b) suppliers.
13 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provided an updated assessment of retail competition and profitability in July 2024 which did not find that groceries inflation was being driven at an aggregate level by weak competition between retailers. There...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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