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  "dataset": "UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) cases",
  "source_name": "GOV.UK Search API",
  "source_url": "https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases",
  "api_endpoint": "https://www.gov.uk/api/search.json",
  "filter": {
    "content_store_document_type": "cma_case"
  },
  "captured_at_utc": "2026-06-20T08:13:35Z",
  "total_reported_by_source": 2562,
  "total_collected": 2562,
  "completeness_reconciled": true,
  "data_quality": {
    "note": "Field gaps below reflect the source, not the extraction. Many pre-2014 records were inherited from the OFT and the Competition Commission and never carried these fields.",
    "missing_opened_date": 1240,
    "closed_without_outcome_type": 314,
    "with_outcome_type": 2180,
    "distinct_outcome_types": 27
  },
  "breakdown_by_state": {
    "closed": 2492,
    "open": 70
  },
  "breakdown_by_type": {
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    "ca98-and-civil-cartels": 169,
    "sau-referral": 131,
    "consumer-enforcement": 108,
    "markets": 70,
    "regulatory-references-and-appeals": 35,
    "review-of-orders-and-undertakings": 31,
    "competition-disqualification": 9,
    "criminal-cartels": 7,
    "oim-project": 6,
    "information-and-advice-to-government": 4,
    "digital-markets-unit": 4
  },
  "opened_by_year": {
    "1999": 2,
    "2000": 7,
    "2001": 10,
    "2002": 9,
    "2003": 18,
    "2004": 26,
    "2005": 21,
    "2006": 20,
    "2007": 19,
    "2008": 17,
    "2009": 27,
    "2010": 27,
    "2011": 30,
    "2012": 37,
    "2013": 32,
    "2014": 98,
    "2015": 91,
    "2016": 91,
    "2017": 83,
    "2018": 80,
    "2019": 77,
    "2020": 51,
    "2021": 66,
    "2022": 62,
    "2023": 83,
    "2024": 99,
    "2025": 85,
    "2026": 54
  }
}