Andrew Bingham – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Bingham on 2014-07-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the financial advantages enjoyed by larger companies in preventing their marketing and promotional emails from being blocked by servers.

Mr Edward Vaizey

The Department has not made an assessment regarding this issue.

If there is evidence that treating emails in this manner is driving anti-competitive behaviour by companies, this should be referred to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s independent competition authority, for consideration.