Asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which dynamic pricing is operated within the UK retail sector.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
The UK Retail Sector is fiercely competitive – competition underpins consumer confidence, creates wider choice, increases quality and ensures transparency.
The Government believes consumers are best served by the operation of open competition between companies and, as part of this, businesses will set prices according to their assessment of the prevailing market conditions.
Asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to extend the remit of the Groceries Code Adjudicator.
Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
Before we consider an extension of the Groceries Code Adjudicator’s (GCA) remit, we need to be absolutely clear on where any problems exist in the supply chain – and that an extended remit is the right response to those problems. Therefore, it is important that we hear views from all parties in the UK’s grocery supply chain.
In order to gather these views we recently launched a Call for Evidence seeking views on the remit of the GCA.
The Call for Evidence launched on the 17 October and closes on the 10 January.