Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many transactions were referred to his Department under the National Security and Investment Act 2021 have involved organisations with links to the Chinese (a) state and (b) Community Party since 5 July 2024; and how many and what proportion of these transactions were approved.

The Government publishes an annual report on the National Security and Investment (NSI) Act, with information about the transactions that it has been notified about and those it subsequently called in for a full national security assessment.

The reports include the percentage of accepted notifications, call-in notices issued, final notifications issued and the number of withdrawals from a called in acquisition and final orders issued by origin of investment.

The NSI Annual Report 2023-24 was published on 10 September 2024. The period from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025 will be covered in the next annual report, which will be published later this year.