Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2025 to Question 79231 on Foreign Influence Registration Scheme, what her planned timetable is for determining whether to include China in the enhanced tier of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme; and what factors have determined that timetable.

As set out in the National Security Act 2023, the Secretary of State may make a specification under the enhanced tier of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS) where they consider it is reasonably necessary to do so to protect the safety or interests of the United Kingdom.

We look very carefully at which countries should be on the enhanced tier of the scheme, factoring in a broad range of considerations.

As I set out in the House of Commons on 20 January 2026, any changes to the countries listed will be brought to Parliament in the usual way.