, could restrict competition by
controlling at least one-third of the market. Following such an investigation, the
Commission would publish a report which was either factual or advisory and it was then
the responsibility of the relevant government department to decide what course of
action, if any, to take to remove practices regarded as contrary to the public interest. In
the event, the majority of the Commission’s recommendations tended to be ignored,
though it did have some success in highlighting the extent of monopoly power in the UKin the early post-war period.