Empowering drivers and boosting competition in the road fuel retail market
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Detail of outcome
The government response outlines:
- the consultation position
- a high level summary of the responses to the consultation
- the government response to these, organised under each question of the consultation
The consultation sought views on proposals to design and implement 2 Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) recommendations:
- Open Data Scheme: participation and coverage, who needs to report the data, types of data to be reported, methods of reporting, frequency and timing of reporting, data sharing, enforcement, funding mechanism, challenges, and risks
- CMA monitoring function: focus and frequency of reports, what topical issues should be examined and how government can support businesses with information requests
The government response confirms plans to implement the open data scheme (called Fuel Finder) and CMA monitoring function. It sets out the final design of the open data scheme and some elements of the CMA monitoring function.
The government is committed to implementing Fuel Finder as quickly as possible and so we will conduct a procurement exercise in early 2025 to procure an aggregator to create, develop and run Fuel Finder. Subject to the necessary legislation, the aim is to launch Fuel Finder by the end of 2025.
The aim is to commence the CMA’s statutory information gathering powers for its road fuels monitoring function, contained within the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act by January 2025.
Detail of feedback received
We received 79 responses to this consultation from a wide range of stakeholders, including:
- fuel retailers
- trade associations
- potential third party data users
- consumer or motoring groups
- individuals
- others
Original consultation
Consultation description
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) undertook a year long market study into the road fuel sector. It concluded by recommending that the government should create a statutory open data scheme for fuel prices and an ongoing road fuels price monitoring function.
We are consulting to understand views on the best way to design and implement the open data scheme and elements of the monitoring function that are not outlined in the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill, and we have set out our proposals in this consultation.
Read our consultation privacy notice.
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Published 16 January 2024Last updated 30 October 2024 + show all updates
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