Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential security threat from China to the UK.

As a matter of long-standing policy, we do not comment on the detail of security and intelligence issues.

More generally, the government’s first duty is to protect our national security and keep our country safe. We keep potential threats to the UK under constant review and, where necessary, we use all the tools at our disposal to mitigate these threats.

When it comes to China this Government will take a consistent, long term and strategic approach, rooted in UK and global interests. We will cooperate where we can, compete where we need to, and challenge where we must, including on issues of national security.