The Competition Act 1998 banned public schools from fee-fixing in the United Kingdom, which they had previously been allowed to do. The term public school has different (and in some cases contradictory) meanings due to regional differences. ...

In 2004 50 public school were investigated for fee-fixing by the Office of Fair Trading, and have been asked to collectivelly raise £3 million, which will be spent on charities nominated by the pupils of the schools involved in the years 2001-2003. The Office of Fair Trading or OFT is a UK statutory body established by the Enterprise Act 2002, which seeks to protect the consumer from anti-competitive practices. ...