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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential competition impact of major digital platforms requiring business customers to accept contractual provisions concerning the use of their website content as a condition of continued access to their services.

The Department has not made a specific assessment of the potential competition impact described. Responsibility for investigating competition issues in digital markets falls to Competition and Markets Authority, the UK’s principal competition authority with responsibility for operating the digital markets regime.