Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the Competition and Markets Authority releases a public roadmap for its Strategic Market Status investigation into Microsoft’s business software ecosystem; and how his Department is supporting the timely completion of that investigation.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is operationally independent of Government and is responsible for conducting Strategic Market Status (SMS) investigations. The CMA has committed to operating the digital markets regime in a way that provides predictability. As part of this commitment, it has previously published roadmaps outlining potential future interventions following an SMS designation.