With the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) having recently handed down fines totalling more than £9m on two of the UK’s largest suppliers of rolled lead for breaking competition law, it is vital businesses that have been involved in anti-competitive practices come clean if they want to minimise the inevitable fines they will face.

After handing down the £1.5m and £8m penalties to Associated Leads Mills Ltd and H.J Enthoven Ltd (trading as BLM British Lead) respectively, the CMA’s executive director of enforcement, Michael Grenfell, said the construction industry was firmly under its spotlight.

According to research commissioned by the CMA in 2018, 77% of UK businesses admitted to not understanding competition law, with 79% of respondents stating they regularly meet with rivals in social situations – putting themselves at risk of crossing the line without realising it.

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