Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the invitation to comment by the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Competition and Markets Authority Statutory Audit Market on the impact of increased choice in the audit market.

It is for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), as an independent competition body, to assess responses to its invitation to comment. The Government looks forward to the CMA’s provisional findings, due to be published in due course.