1.   Legal restrictions Restrictive-trade-practices legislation is only one of the multitude of legal restrictions on concentrated power.

2.   Legislation could still be a long way off but the proposals are an important first step.

3.   Most of the firms in private industry to which monopolies and mergers legislation is relevant are in fact oligopolists.

4.   Parliamentary material is admissible where the legislation is ambiguous, uncertain or leads to an absurdity.

5.   Social security legislation by contrast is a complex web of primary and secondary legislation.

6.   The existing legislation on fringe benefits was to be repealed.

7.   The new legislation will be the subject of close judicial scrutiny.

8.   Legislation is to be put through parliament aimed at abolishing the House of Lords.