Price controls on essential food items: consultation paper
This consultation seeks your views on the proposed introduction of legal price caps on essential food items sold by large supermarket chains in their stores or online. This consultation seeks your views on the Scottish Government proposal and the design of any potential scheme.
Open
76 days to respond
Respond online
Footnotes
1 Consumer price inflation tables - Office for National Statistics and Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information, seasonally adjusted - Office for National Statistics
2 Public Support for Healthier Food Environments in Scotland - Obesity Action Scotland Briefing 2026
3 Public Health Scotland - Population health impacts of the rising cost of living in Scotland
4 Trussell - Hunger In Scotland - September 2025
5 The Eatwell Guide - Food Standards Scotland
6 Infant formula and follow-on formula market study final report - Competition and Markets Authority
7 Preparing and filing Companies House accounts
8 National Diet and Nutrition Survey - 2019 to 2023
9 Nesta - Targeting the health of the nation: technical appendix
10 Grocery Market Share - Great Britain
11 Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Act 2020
12 www.eizg.hr
13 European Commission Decision on referring Hungary to CJEU - 8 June 2026
Contact
Email: foodprices@gov.scot