Found: 428/2009; Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018; Integrated Review 2021; National Security and Investment Act

Found: We now have legislation in the form of the National Security Act 2023 and the National Security and Investment Act

Found: We now have legislation in the form of the National Security Act 2023 and the National Security and Investment Act

Found: It says: “We have created and used new powers under the National Security and Investment Act”—I believe

Found: It says: “We have created and used new powers under the National Security and Investment Act”—I believe

Found: That is over and above what exists in the National Security and Investment Act.

Found: That is over and above what exists in the National Security and Investment Act.

Found: The UK’s National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA) similarly allows the Government to screen

Found: have touched on, the water sector is not listed as a sensitive industry under the National Security and Investment Act

Found: Statecraft Directorate, which also provides Defence’s contribution to the operation of the National Security and Investment Act

Found: The National Security and Investment Act imposes regulation or obligations on academics to make risk

Found: In particular, the National Security and Investment Act, which came into force in 2022, gives the Secretary

Found: We also, of course, have the legal structure of the National Security and Investment Act, which considers

Found: Until Oliver Dowden took over as the decision maker for the National Security and Investment Act, his

Found: This ensures that research and innovation activities comply with the UK National Security and Investment Act

Found: require duplicative reporting from institutions, such as through export controls, the National Security and Investment Act

Found: However, the UK's regulatory frameworks, such as the National Security and Investment Act, do require

Found: and consumer goods - while maintaining rigorous oversight and scrutiny under the National Security and Investment Act

Found: foreign investment regime, it recently introduced investment screening through the National Security and Investment Act

Found: institutions related to specific queries and in areas including export control, the National Security and Investment Act

Found: national security or critical infrastructure, operating outside the scope of the UK National Security and Investment Act

Found: has already been advancing through several important mechanisms, including the National Security and Investment Act

Found: The Government empowers intervention in such cases under The National Security and Investment Act 2021

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the UK’s investment screening regime supports responsible sovereign wealth fund investment.

Answered by Chris Bryant - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)

The UK has close investment relationships with many of the world’s sovereign wealth funds, supporting mutually beneficial, strategic investment into the UK.

The National Security and Investment Act (NSIA) 2021 gives the UK Government the power to scrutinise and, where necessary, intervene in a transaction that is captured by the act regardless of the acquirer. Every NSIA transaction is taken on its own merit, on a case-by-case basis.

The legislation enables investment into sensitive sectors of our economy while providing robust protections to ensure the UK’s national security is not compromised.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, CP 1337, published on 23 June 2025, what progress he has made on the 12-week consultation on updating definitions covering the 17 sensitive areas of the economy subject to mandatory notification under the National Security and Investment Act.

Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)

On 22 July 2025, the former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Rt Hon Pat McFadden MP, published a 12-week consultation on updating the definitions of the 17 sensitive areas of the economy subject to mandatory notification requirements under the National Security and Investment Act 2021 through the Notifiable Acquisition Regulations.

The consultation closed on 14 October. The Government is currently considering the feedback received and will publish a consultation response summarising responses and setting out the proposals that will be taken forward, including possible secondary legislation, in due course.

Found: Our system under the National Security and Investment Act delivers this, providing investors with a clear

Found: Across all sectors, under the National Security and Investment Act 2021, the government is able to ‘

Found: Details The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has made a Final Order under the National Security and Investment Act

Found: separate plans to update the sectors of the economy subject to greater scrutiny under the National Security and Investment Act

Found: Organisations must be working in one of the 17 sensitive areas of the economy set out in the National Security and Investment Act

Found: which explains the operation of the legal provisions of the military end-use controls National Security and Investment Act

Found: . • The National Security and Investment Act 2021 upgraded the UK’s investment screening powers, allowing

Found: National Security and Investment Act 2021: Annual Report 2024-25

Found: National Security and Investment Act 2021: Annual Report 2024-25

Found: National Security and Investment Act 2021: Annual Report 2024-25

Found: National Security and Investment Act (Notifiable Acquisition) (Specification of Qualifying

Found: This consultation seeks views on proposed changes to the National Security and Investment Act (Notifiable

Found: Government’s approach to attracting international investors will be underpinned by the National Security and Investment Act

Found: regarding extra-territorial application of offences in those Acts) • section 52 of the National Security and Investment Act

Found: regarding extra-territorial application of offences in those Acts) • section 52 of the National Security and Investment Act

Found: . • The National Security and Investment Act 2021 upgraded the UK’s investment screening powers, allowing

Found: Across all sectors, under the National Security and Investment Act 2021, the government is able to ‘

Found: Organisations must be working in one of the 17 sensitive areas of the economy set out in the National Security and Investment Act

Found: . • Under the National Security and Investment Act 2021 (Notifiable Acquisition) (Specification of Qualifying

Found: • Under the National Security and Investment Act 2021 (Notifiable Acquisition) (Specification of Qualifying

Found: preparedness for CBR risks8 • investment security: NSS screens inward investment under the National Security and Investment Act

Found: . • The National Security and Investment Act 2021 upgraded the UK’s investment screening powers, allowing

Found: says that the buyers and sellers concluded that a mandatory notification under the National Security and Investment Act

Found: Ministers can block investment into the UK under the National Security and Investment Act.

Found: of critical national infrastructure including energy, and the application of the National Security and Investment Act

Question

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will conduct an immediate strategic audit of any potential implications for (a) public bodies, (b) infrastructure and (c) energy systems in Scotland of (i) Chinese investment in offshore wind and (b) the use of Hikvision cameras by public sector bodies.

Answered by Robertson, Angus - Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture

The UK Government is responsible for national security, the regulation of international trade, elements of critical national infrastructure including energy, and the application of the National Security and Investment Act.

It is a priority for us to secure inward investment where it is possible to do so. We are engaging closely with the UK Government to understand the progress it is making in considering the security implications of Chinese and other potential foreign investment in energy-related infrastructure.

Regarding the use of Hikvision cameras by public sector bodies, councils and public bodies are separate from the Scottish Government. Therefore, as long as they act lawfully, each public body is accountable for its own decisions in relation to day to day business, including procurement competitions.

Public procurement regulations specifically allow for companies to be excluded from tendering, where it can be demonstrated by appropriate means that they are guilty of grave professional misconduct. The Scottish Government expects all public sector bodies to undertake appropriate due diligence on companies in receipt of public money. Ultimately, it is the responsibility of public sector bodies to make decisions on how best to deliver services to their communities.