GKN: Melrose
(asked on 21st February 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to block in the national interest the hostile takeover bid by Melrose for GKN.
This question was answered on 1st March 2018
Public interest interventions under the Enterprise Act 2002 are quasi-judicial in nature and it is important that Ministers act, and are seen to be acting, impartially. For this reason, the Government does not comment on the use of these powers in individual cases.