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  • Review of price marking in the groceries sector

    A findings report on the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) review of price marking practices by different types of grocery retailers.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Competition and Markets Authority
    • Updated:
  • CMA AI strategic update

    The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has released its AI strategic update, which sets out how it is ensuring consumers, businesses and the wider economy reap the benefits of developments in AI, while harms are mitigat…

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Competition and Markets Authority
    • Updated:
  • BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker: Summer 2022

    Findings from the quarterly BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker (PAT).

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
    • Updated:
  • DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker: Spring 2023

    Findings from the quarterly DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker (PAT).

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker
    • Organisation: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
    • Updated:
  • AI Foundation Models: Initial report

    A report following the CMA's review into AI Foundation Models, and their impact on competition and consumer protection.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Competition and Markets Authority
    • Updated:
  • Estimating the prevalence and impact of drip pricing

    This research investigates the prevalence of online drip pricing across selected sectors and assesses the detriment it may cause to UK consumers.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Business and Trade
    • Updated:
  • Subscriptions: types offered by business and numbers held by consumers

    Research to understand the number and type of subscriptions held by adults, and the subscriptions offered by businesses in the UK.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Business and Trade
    • Updated:
  • Investigating the prevalence and impact of fake reviews

    This research investigates the prevalence of fake reviews on UK e-commerce platforms and assesses the impact and subsequent harm they can have on UK consumers.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Business and Trade
    • Updated:
  • BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker: Winter 2022

    Findings from the quarterly BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker (PAT).

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker
    • Organisation: Department for Business and Trade and 2 others
    • Updated:
  • Digital consumer issues research

    This research was commissioned to help build and strengthen the DCMS Digital Regulation Policy team’s evidence base regarding digital consumer issues.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
    • Updated:
  • MHRA: Business Impact Target

    The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) assesses its regulatory impact on businesses.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
    • Updated:
  • BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker: Autumn 2022

    Findings from the quarterly BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker (PAT)

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
    • Updated:
  • BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker: Spring 2022

    Findings from the quarterly BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker (PAT).

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
    • Updated:
  • BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker: Winter 2021

    Findings from the quarterly BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker (PAT). Revised May 2022.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
    • Updated:
  • Consumer protection study 2022

    Study of the problems consumers faced with purchases, their impacts on consumers and how successfully they were resolved.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Online Choice Architecture: How digital design can harm competition and consumers

    Two papers from the CMA's Behavioural Hub discussing and summarising evidence on online choice architecture (OCA) and how it potentially causes harm.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Online choice architecture work
    • Organisation: Competition and Markets Authority
    • Updated:
  • BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker: Autumn 2021

    Findings from the quarterly BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker (PAT).

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
    • Updated:
  • Personalised pricing and disclosure

    This review suggests factors to consider when evaluating impacts of companies disclosing that they are 'personalising' prices.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • A new pro-competition regime for digital markets: accompanying research

    A report on the relationship between competition and innovation in digital markets, and a survey providing evidence on the scale and extent of harm experienced by third-party retailers using e-commerce platforms.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 2 others
    • Updated:
  • BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker: Wave 37

    Findings from the 37th quarterly wave of the BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker (PAT).

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
    • Updated: