SUPERMARKET PRICING

Early day motion 909, tabled 23 February 2010 by Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour). Signed by 55 members.

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.

Signatures by party: Labour 30, Liberal Democrat 14, DUP 3, Independent 3, Social Democratic and Labour Party 3, Conservative 2.