Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Monday 17th December 2018 Ministerial Corrections

Draft Competition (Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

The following is an extract from the Third Delegated Legislation Committee on 5 December 2018.

[Kelly Tolhurst]

We have also assessed—working with the CMA, obviously—that the CMA might have to deal with between 15 and 30 extra merger cases over a year.

[Official Report, Third Delegated Legislation Committee, 5 December 2018; c. 9.]

Letter of correction from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Kelly Tolhurst):

An error has been identified in the response I gave to the Committee:

The correct response should have been:

[Kelly Tolhurst]

We have also assessed—working with the CMA, obviously—that the CMA might have to deal with between 30 and 50 extra merger cases over a year.