questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of consolidating dental and veterinary practices into corporate chains on (a) pricing and (b) consumer access; and whether he plans to instruct
answerText: Under competition law, responsibility for investigating individual and market-wide competition issues, including consolidation, falls to the Competition and Markets Authority (&quot;CMA&quot;), the UK's competition authority. The Government has ensured th...
heading: Dental Services and Veterinary Services: Access and Prices