Question follow-through · 66318

Media: Foreign Investment in UK

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of foreign governments investing in UK media on national security.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
9 Jul 2025
Target answer date
11 Jul 2025
Answer
16 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of foreign governments investing in UK media on national security.

  2. 11 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    As a matter of long-standing policy, we do not comment on the detail of security and intelligence issues.More generally, the Government is committed to a pluralistic media landscape, where citizens are able to access information from a range of sources in...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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