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.
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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
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.
11 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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