{"id":22853,"date":"2018-04-12T17:49:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T16:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22853"},"modified":"2018-04-12T17:49:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T16:49:22","slug":"the-governments-recognised-markets-arent-working%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8anow-its-time-to-fix-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22853","title":{"rendered":"The government\u2019s recognised markets aren\u2019t working\u200a\u2014\u200anow it\u2019s time to fix them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the headline of a <a href=\"https:\/\/wearecitizensadvice.org.uk\/the-governments-recognised-markets-aren-t-working-now-it-s-time-to-fix-them-296278bdc3d0\">blog posting<\/a> by Citizens Advice about the Government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/consumer-green-paper-modernising-consumer-markets\">Consumer Green Paper<\/a> published this week.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens Advice highlights four issues especially:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"postList\">\n<li id=\"5172\" class=\"graf graf--li graf-after--p\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--li-strong\">Consulting on creating an independent consumer advocate for telecoms. <\/strong>Telecoms is increasingly critical to our lives and our economy and yet\u200a\u2014\u200aunlike all other essential markets\u200a\u2014\u200athere\u2019s no statutory independent advocate. We look forward to the government taking necessary steps to address this.<\/li>\n<li id=\"ae36\" class=\"graf graf--li graf-after--li\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--li-strong\">Developing scorecards for suppliers in essential markets<\/strong> to hold them to account for outcomes, and name and shame poor performers.<\/li>\n<li id=\"98c7\" class=\"graf graf--li graf-after--li\"><strong>Giving the Competition and Markets Authority<\/strong><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--li-strong\"> a new direction, <\/strong>signalling a shift in what good markets look like. The government wants to see them focus more on protecting consumers, incorporate behavioural economics and help fix the country\u2019s productivity crisis.<\/li>\n<li id=\"e2ad\" class=\"graf graf--li graf-after--li\"><strong>Considering<\/strong> <strong class=\"markup--strong markup--li-strong\">new standards <\/strong>for how people with mental health conditions and cognitive impairments are served in essential markets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the headline of a blog posting by Citizens Advice about the Government&#8217;s Consumer Green Paper published this week. Citizens Advice highlights four issues especially: Consulting on creating an independent consumer advocate for telecoms. Telecoms is increasingly critical to our lives and our economy and yet\u200a\u2014\u200aunlike all other essential markets\u200a\u2014\u200athere\u2019s no statutory independent advocate. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22853"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22858,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22853\/revisions\/22858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}