Competition Markets Authority
class="gem-c-govspeak govuk-govspeak gem-c-govspeak--direction-ltr govuk-!-margin-bottom-0">
These figures detail the outcomes of all merger inquiries completed in each year, from 1 April 2004 to the latest full month.
Please note that decisions up to and including 31 March 2014 were given by the Office of Fair Trading and the Competition Commission. Decisions on or after 1 April 2014 were given by the Competition and Markets Authority.
More information about overall UK merger activity is available from the Office for National Statisticss quarterly statistical bulletin on mergers and acquisitions involving UK companies .
Published 7 May 2014
Last updated 7 November 2024
+show all updates 7 November 2024 Data for October added to the page
9 October 2024 Data for September added to the page
12 September 2024 Data for August added to the page.
7 August 2024 Data for July added to the page
3 July 2024 Data for June added to the page
10 June 2024 Data for May added to the page
7 May 2024 Data for April added to the page
8 April 2024 Data for March added to the page
7 March 2024 Data for February added to the page
1 February 2024 Data for January added to the page
9 November 2023 Data for October added to the page
11 October 2023 Data for September added to the page
6 September 2023 Data for August added to the page
4 August 2023 Merger inquiry outcome statistics to July 2023 published.
11 July 2023 Data for June 2023 added to the page.
8 June 2023 Data for May 2023 added to the page.
11 May 2023 April stats added to the page.
3 April 2023 Data for March 2023 added.
17 March 2023 Merger inquiry outcome statistics updated.
6 February 2023 Merger inquiry outcome statistics updated.
13 January 2023 Merger outcome statistics updated.
3 November 2022 Merger inquiry outcome statistics to 31 October 2022 published.
14 October 2022 Merger inquiry outcome statistics to September 2022 published.
8 September 2022 Merger inquiry outcome statistics updated.
3 August 2022 Merger inquiry outcome statistics to July 2022 published.
8 July 2022 Merger inquiry outcome statistics to June 2022 published.
View the original news story
