By Jon Menon ( November 3, 2026, 17:33 GMT | Insight) -- The level of fines meted out by the UK antitrust regulator since it gained direct consumer enforcement powers is “extremely small,” the chair of a parliamentary committee said. Liam Byrne, chair of the cross-party Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee said he was surprised that only £12 million of fines had been imposed in relation to £70 billion pounds of “consumer harm across the economy.”The level of fines meted out by the UK antitrust regulator since it gained direct consumer enforcement powers is “extremely small,” the chair of a parliamentary committee said....
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