Question follow-through · 8584
Foreign Investment in UK
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many businesses have been assisted by the inward investment concierge service in each month since it was established.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 10 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 17 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 17 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many businesses have been assisted by the inward investment concierge service in each month since it was established.
17 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Office for Investment: Financial Services (OFI:FS) has provided substantive assistance to approximately 40 firms, leveraging our regulatory, policy, and market access expertise, and engaged with over 120 firms. Since launch in October 2025, the OfI:FS...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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