Competition Markets Authority Details 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 8 September 2022
+show all updates 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.
17 June 2022 Merger inquiry outcome statistics to May 2022 published.
20 May 2022 Merger inquiry outcome statistics to April 2022 published.
14 January 2022 Merger inquiry outcome statistics until December 2021 published.
13 December 2021 Merger inquiry outcome statistics until November 2021 published.
3 November 2021 Merger inquiry outcome statistics until October 2021 published.
9 September 2021 August merger inquiry outcome statistics published.
4 August 2021 July 2021 merger inquiry outcome statistics published.
2 July 2021 June merger inquiry outcome statistics published.
10 June 2021 Merger inquiry outcome statistics updated.
7 April 2021 March 2021 statistics added.
11 February 2021 January 2021 statistics added.
11 January 2021 December 2020 statistics added.
2 December 2020 November 2020 statistics added.
9 November 2020 October 2020 statistics added.
9 October 2020 September statistics added.
4 September 2020 Updated statistics to August 2020.
6 August 2020 Updated statistics to July 2020.
3 June 2020 Updated statistics to May 2020.
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