asked Her Majesty's Government:

What specific steps they will take to ensure that United Kingdom sector regulators will co-ordinate their work increasingly in a European Union-wide single market context; and whether they will give examples of recent such actions. [HL417]

The Government are aware that initiatives from the EU are having an increasing impact on the role of sector regulators. It is for the regulators in the first instance to consider to what extent they need to co-ordinate their work in response to this, either in the UK or with European counterparts; for example, mechanisms are already in place for sector regulators with concurrent UK and EU competition powers to share best practice. Against this background, the Government are also considering their response to the House of Lords Select Committee on Regulators report on UK Economic Regulators ((HL Paper 189-I), including the committee's recommendations on co-ordination between regulators.