Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour), on Tuesday, 23 February 2010, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 55 members in total.

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SUPERMARKET PRICING

That this House congratulates the Guardian newspaper's Datablog report into supermarket prices, which found that two-thirds of pre-Christmas price cuts at Asda and Tesco were only one penny; notes with concern that more than half of all price rises during the same period were greater than 10 pence; believes that consumers were given a false impression about price cuts by television advertising at the time; deplores the behaviour of retailers who seek to manipulate prices in this cynical way; and calls on the Government to consider introducing legislation to oblige large retailers to publish weekly price lists of all their stock in a standard, machine readable, open digital format.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

909 

Session

2009-10

Other sponsors

Peter Bottomley

Lindsay Hoyle

Mark Durkan

Jo Swinson

Bob Russell

Subjects

Service industries

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk