The campaign group Champagne Nurseries on Lemonade Funding (CNLF), which has nearly 7,000 members, has made a complaint to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) about the Government’s abuse of its legislative powers to fix childcare costs below market value.
If the CMA, a non-ministerial Government department responsible for strengthening business competition and preventing and reducing anti-competitive activities, finds this to be the case, it will launch an in-depth investigation, which could last up to 24 weeks.
The group’s complaint to the CMA states that the ‘price fixing of both the purchase and sales price is an abuse of market control'.
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