Question follow-through · 107187
Foreign Investment in UK: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he has had discussions with the US ambassador on opportunities to attract increased US investment to Northern Ireland; and what steps his Department is taking to facilitate such investment.
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- Answering body
- Northern Ireland Office
- Tabled
- 20 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he has had discussions with the US ambassador on opportunities to attract increased US investment to Northern Ireland; and what steps his Department is taking to facilitate such investment.
22 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Government engages regularly with the US administration to promote investment opportunities in Northern Ireland and I met the US Ambassador in Northern Ireland in July. Recent major investments, like Bank of America’s Belfast expansion, bringing with ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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