DISCLOSURES OF INTEREST

Northern Irish personal banking

The Competition Commission intends to contract with market research agency Millward Brown Ulster to conduct focus group discussions in Northern Ireland as part of the inquiry.

Millward Brown Ulster has carried out ad-hoc qualitative work for two of the main parties to the inquiry and provided one of them with omnibus survey services.

None of the work undertaken in the last year has related to the issues under investigation in this Inquiry. The Competition Commission believes that the matters described will not compromise the ability of the agency to discharge its contract in an independent and impartial manner.