European Investment Bank Debate

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Department: HM Treasury
Wednesday 24th July 2024

(4 months, 2 weeks ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Fox Portrait Lord Fox (LD)
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During his very good summing up at the end of Monday’s excellent debate, the Minister did not get a chance to answer some of the questions that I had asked about the national wealth fund, so I will ask one of them now and perhaps he can go through Hansard and look at the others. How will the national wealth fund decide what it is going to invest in? Will it be a strategic investment or purely commercial? Who will be setting the criteria for those investments?

Lord Livermore Portrait Lord Livermore (Lab)
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The national wealth fund will work on the same basis as the UK Infrastructure Bank in terms of allocating investment. I think that is the answer to the noble Lord’s question.