Question follow-through · 81837

Foreign Influence Registration Scheme: China

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason she has not placed China on the enhanced tier of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
20 Oct 2025
Answer
30 Oct 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason she has not placed China on the enhanced tier of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme.

  2. 20 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 30 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    No decision has been made in relation to specifying China on the enhanced tier of FIRS. As I set out in the House of Commons on 13th October, we look very carefully at any question of whether to place a particular country on the enhanced tier of the schem...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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