Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what impact the increase in foreign direct investment in the UK has on their policy for artificial intelligence innovation, if any.

The Government welcomes the increase of foreign direct investment into the UK economy. In 2024, the UK AI sector received £15bn worth of FDI across 51 different investment deals, creating over 6,500 jobs. This ensures the sector continues to grow and maintains its place as the largest AI sector in Europe and the third largest in the world.

In the AI Opportunities Action Plan, this Government set out its ambitions to make the UK an AI-maker. We are backing British businesses through our £500 million Sovereign AI Fund and acting as first customers to promising British chip companies in our Advanced Market Commitment. Foreign investment is helping us scale our ambitions, building out large-scale infrastructure as AI Growth Zones, but this has not altered our policy to make the UK a global leader in the development of AI.