Call for evidence outcome

Call for evidence: proposed reform of the water special merger regime

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
This call for evidence has closed

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Summary of responses

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Detail of outcome

Twelve responses were received. Also included with the summary of responses is feedback from two work-shops that were held in the summer as part of this evidence gathering exercise.


Original call for evidence

Summary

This "Call for Evidence" seeks views and evidence on proposed changes to the water Special Merger Regime.

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Call for evidence description

This “Call for Evidence” sought views and evidence on proposed changes to the water Special Merger Regime. In particular, we sought views and evidence on proposals to increase the threshold at which mergers between water and sewerage companies are automatically referred by the Office of Fair Trading to the Competition Commission from the current level of £10m.

The Call for Evidence was aimed at Water and Sewerage Companies in England and Wales.

Further information

Documents

Call for Evidence letter

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Call for Evidence document

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List of organisations / individuals invited to comment

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Updates to this page

Published 17 May 2012
Last updated 9 July 2013 + show all updates
  1. Published summary of responses

  2. First published.

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