Clause 129 - Time-limits for market investigations and reports

Part of Enterprise Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 10:45 am ar 7 Mai 2002.

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Photo of Mark Field Mark Field Ceidwadwyr, Cities of London and Westminster 10:45, 7 Mai 2002

I appreciate that, but the early timetabling will take place within the confines of the two-year maximum, however much we try to introduce a discipline in timetabling.

Is any guidance provided with respect to the nine-month timetable for monopolies inquiries? If most such monopoly investigations take seven or eight months—in other words, nine months provides a strict discipline—that suggests having a lesser timetable, rather than merely relying on the fact that the two years is a long stop and that the investigation may take less time.