Unless you're working in a university and involved in course design and recruitment you cannot begin to imagine the (in my view utterly ludicrous) fear of the Competitions and Markets Authority. It's referred to as the CMA, and I fantasise about the Country Music Association getting involved instead. The claim is that if we don't lay out, in detail, at the point at which people are making decisions about where to apply, the likely costs and course structure (down to module level) of courses, then an unspecified bad thing which no-one can articulate will happen.
In reality, there have been a handful of cases in which students have turned up to find the building unfinished, the course non-existent and the lecturers not even interviewed, mostly (although not exclusively) at institutions which one might euphemistically describe as "very much at the 'recruiting' end of things". There are not going to be major legal ructions over not giving two years' notice of changing your first year introductory course in the semiotics of beer towels from 20% to 30% continuous assessment, but the paranoia is genuinely stalking the corridors.
Bumping up costs, even for home/EU students who are entitled to matching loans, is probably worrying a few places to the point that they have decided to advertise an upper bound. They should stop being frightened of shadows.