Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 27 Hydref 1980.
As I believe the hon. Gentleman knows, the Government have no powers to do anything about the monopoly to which he refers. What he described as a merger is in fact the opening of a new publication, a new newspaper. Anything that is in breach of the terms of the Fair Trading Act could properly be considered by the Government.