Artificial Intelligence: Foreign Investment in UK
(asked on 14th October 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure the UK is a global hub for (a) relocation and (b) investment by generative artificial intelligence firms seeking to license creative content legitimately.
Answered by
Kanishka Narayan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
We are supporting the growth of a globally competitive AI sector in the UK and ensuring that the UK is the destination of choice for leading AI firms.
Since July 2024, £44 billion has been invested in UK AI and tech. A further £31 billion has been committed by leading AI firms, including Microsoft, NVIDIA, Google, OpenAI and CoreWeave. The UK-US Tech Prosperity Deal announced in September further strengthens our position as a destination of choice for AI investment and relocation.
As set out in the Industrial Strategy Creative Industries sector plan, we will establish a Creative Content Exchange to be a trusted marketplace for selling, buying, licensing, and enabling permitted access to digitised cultural and creative assets.