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  • 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:
  • Protecting consumers during the coronavirus pandemic: 15 March 2021 update

    An update on the CMA’s work in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: CMA coronavirus (COVID-19) response
    • Organisation: Competition and Markets Authority
    • Updated:
  • BEIS Public Attitudes Tracker: Wave 36

    Findings from the 36th 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: