United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 99006
Veterinary Services
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10 December 2025
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17 December 2025 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of vertical integration within large veterinary groups, including ownership of pharmacies, laboratories, out-of-hours providers, crematoria and refer
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10 December 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of vertical integration within large veterinary groups, including ownership of pharmacies, laboratories, out-of-hours providers, crematoria and refer
Source: Commons
17 December 2025
Answer
Responsibility for investigating individual and market-wide competition issues, including vertical integration, falls to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) as the UK’s independent competition authority. The CMA is currently conducting a market in...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-12-10/99006
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1862613
- uk · wq-1862613 · source updated 17 December 2025