Organisation: Cabinet Office (UK)

The UK government’s second-ever National Security and Investment Act report fails to provide much-needed transparency about the regime, but it does confirm that Chinese investors face more scrutiny than those from any other country, local lawyers say.

12 July 2023

The UK government has issued new guidance on the implementation of the National Security and Investment Act, clarifying its approach to transactions involving companies in financial distress and the use of interim measures.

02 May 2023

The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change last month published a report slamming the UK’s foreign investment regime for putting the country’s national security at risk. Jeeger Kakkad, the report's author and director of the Future of Britain initiative at the institute, spoke to GCR about how the National Security and Investment Act poses a threat to security, how the regime can be more transparent and the urgent need for government guidance.

06 April 2023

The UK government plans to update its guidance on the National Security and Investment Act less than a month after an advisory organisation set up by former prime minister Tony Blair criticised the new regime for being ambiguous and lacking transparency.

04 April 2023

The foreign investment control regime that the UK government established last year is “vague” and puts the country’s security at risk, an advisory organisation set up by former prime minister Tony Blair has claimed.

14 March 2023

The UK government has conditionally approved the acquisition of a domestic engineering company by a US private equity firm after it promised to continue supplying the Ministry of Defence.

28 February 2023