The FCDO’s role in blocking foreign asset stripping in the UK
Inquiry by the Foreign Affairs Committee, 7 April 2020 to 28 April 2022. Its page on the Parliament website.
Reports and responses
- Sixth Report: Striking the balance: Protecting national security through foreign investment legislation (19 January 2021)
- Tenth Special Report: Striking the balance: Protecting national security through foreign investment legislation: Government Response to the Committee’s Sixth Report (26 February 2021)
- Third Report - Sovereignty for sale: the FCDO’s role in protecting strategic British assets (14 July 2021)
- Fourth Special Report - Government response to the Committee's Third Report: Sovereignty for sale: the FCDO's role in protecting strategic British assets (25 October 2021)
- Sixth report - Sovereignty for sale: follow-up to the acquisition of Newport Wafer Fab (5 April 2022)
Evidence sessions
- 20 May 2020: Dr Ron Black, Imagination Technologies; John Rayfield, Imagination Technologies; Ray Bingham, Imagination Technologies
- 8 September 2020: Chris Cummings, The Investment Association; John Fingleton, Fingleton
- 8 September 2020: Professor Jeffrey Henderson, University of Bristol; Elisabeth Braw, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
- 13 October 2020: Matthew Rous, China-Britain Business Council; Ting Zhang, Crayfish.io
- 13 October 2020: Ciaran Martin, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; Professor Deeph Chana, Institute for Security Science and Technology, Imperial College London
- 3 November 2020: Professor Shaowei He; Azeem Azhar
- 3 November 2020: Professor Nick Jennings; Grace Cassy
- 24 November 2020: Veronica Roberts, Herbert Smith Freehills; Roger Barron, Paul Hastings
- 24 November 2020: Andy Sellars, Compound Semiconductor Catapult; Roger Barker, Institute of Directors
- 1 December 2020: Russ Shaw, Global Tech Advocates & Tech London Advocates; Hazel Moore, FirstCapital
- 1 December 2020: Christopher Mackmurdo, Legatus; Sophia Gaston, British Foreign Policy Group
- 23 February 2021: Paddy McGuinness, Brunswick
- 23 February 2021: Dr Ashley Lenihan, London School of Economics Centre for International Studies; Michael Formosa, Renaissance Strategic Advisors
- 23 March 2021: Paul Scully; Sarah Mackintosh, Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; James Cleverly; Chris Rampling, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; Jacqui Ward, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy