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

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to ensure UK participation in the European competition network after Brexit.

The Government intends to ensure that UK competition authorities, such as the Competition and Markets Authority, can cooperate effectively and coordinate closely their activity with the European Commission and the competition authorities of EU Member States. This will be subject to negotiations with the EU and could be achieved through an agreed form of UK participation in the European competition network or through another mechanism.