Foreign Influence Registration Scheme: China

(asked on 9th October 2026) - View Source
Questioner
Mike Wood Portrait
Mike Wood
(Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will place China on the foreign interference registration scheme enhanced tier in the context of the M15 Security Service Espionage Alert on the China General Technology Research Institute of 30 September 2026.

Answered by
Dan Jarvis Portrait
Dan Jarvis
Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 29th October 2026

As set out in the National Security Act 2023, the Secretary of State may make a specification under the enhanced tier of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS) where they consider it is reasonably necessary to do so to protect the safety or interests of the United Kingdom.

Any changes to the countries listed will be brought to Parliament in the usual way.

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