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Digital Service Providers: Competition

Asked by Julia LopezConservativeDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled Answered 2 December 2025UIN 94363

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to help accelerate the process to designate cloud services with Digital Market Unit's Strategic Market Status to prevent anti-competitive practices in the sector.

Answered by Kanishka Narayan

The Competition and Markets Authority (the CMA) has completed three Strategic Market Status investigations this year. The CMA is independent of the Government and decisions on which markets to investigate are for its Board. The CMA has published guidance on its website on how it will prioritise Strategic Market Status designations.

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