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Price comparison websites sent to CMA

Ofgem has passed an investigation into anti-competitive behaviour by price comparison websites to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), because it found that its own staff had been in discussions with the websites.

Ofgem opened the investigation, which considered whether comparison websites had been “agreeing behaviour ­relating to online keyword search ­advertising”, in October 2015.

But the regulator procured search advertising itself during the period.

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