Competition and Markets Authority: Expenditure

(asked on 24th March 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2026 to Question 120645 on Competition and Markets Authority: Costs, what expenditure the Competition and Markets Authority has incurred on (a) consultants, (b) research and (c) external contracts in support of the Sustainability Taskforce since its establishment.


Answered by
Kate Dearden Portrait
Kate Dearden
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 13th April 2026

The Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) has not incurred expenditure on (a) consultants, (b) research and (c) external contracts in support of the Sustainability Taskforce.

Since its establishment, the expenditure for the Sustainability Taskforce is as follows:

FY

Staff Costs

Non-Staff Costs

Total Cost

Full-Time Equivalent

2023-24

£418,715.01

£3,335.36

£422,050.37

5.4

2024-25

£342,306.01

£677.18

£342,983.19

3.9

Non-staff costs cover other programme expenditure such as travel and subsistence.

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