Extracts from Lords Proceedings - Nov 4
Thursday, 5 November 2020 08:22
Extracts from committee stage (Lords) (day 4) of the United Kingdom
Internal Market Bill Lord Tyrie (Non-Afl):...It might be helpful to
make one more general point. The CMA’s existing arrangements for
securing compliance and information gathering across all its other
functions are manifestly inadequate, as I saw it during my time
there. They should not be used as a benchmark. Incidentally, the
£30,000 figure comes from the merger regime. Something has to be
done. The European Commission...Request free trial
Extracts from committee
stage (Lords) (day 4) of the United Kingdom Internal Market
Bill
(Non-Afl):...It might be helpful to make one more general
point. The CMA’s existing arrangements for securing compliance and
information gathering across all its other functions are manifestly
inadequate, as I saw it during my time there. They should not be
used as a benchmark. Incidentally, the £30,000 figure comes from
the merger regime. Something has to be done. The European
Commission recently fined Facebook £1.6 million for not supplying
information, while the CMA recently fined Amazon £30,000 over the
merger with Deliveroo for not supplying
information. That should give some idea of the disparity...
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Extract from Lords motion
to approve the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions)
(England) (No. 4) Regulations 2020
(Con): My Lords, this is not the first time I have said
in this Chamber that the Government need to fundamentally rethink
their position. We are asked to believe that the rate can be pushed
down by closing churches, John Lewis, bookshops, gyms and swimming
pools but leaving open Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Marks & Spencer and
the Co-op. I have very good news for the noble Baroness, Lady
Smith. My wife was in the Cambridge branch of M&S yesterday to
buy some tights before lockdown; they assured her that they would
be packing as many clothes as possible into the grocery section so
that it would still be possible to buy tights and so on. Are this
Government sponsored by Amazon or by Deliveroo?
Which is it, or is it both?
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