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<p><del class="ministerial">The Government is committed to tackling consumer rip-offs
and bad business practices, including profiteering. Under competition law, responsibility
for investigating individual and market-wide competition issues falls to the Competition
and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s competition authority.</del></p><p> </p><p><del
class="ministerial">The Government has ensured that the CMA has significant powers
and expertise to investigate anti-competitive practices. Consumers and businesses
can report concerns regarding competition issues to the CMA.</del></p><p> </p><p><del
class="ministerial">The Government continues to work with the CMA and other consumer
and retail organisations to monitor the extent of profiteering, and will update the
law if it is proportionate to do so.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government
is committed to tackling consumer rip-offs and bad business practices. The Government
has ensured that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has significant powers
and expertise to investigate such issues.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial">Under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations
2008, it is a criminal offence to provide consumers with misleading information or
omit important details about a product they are purchasing. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">
</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Under competition law, the CMA is responsible
for investigating individual and market-wide competition issues. Consumers and businesses
should report concerns about competition issues to the CMA.</ins></p>
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