Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what due diligence his Department has carried out on the proposed Aquind Interconnector project and its owners, with particular reference to illicit finance and funds reported in the Pandora Papers; and whether his Department has made an assessment of whether any of those funds were used in political donations to Government ministers.

Foreign involvement in critical national infrastructure undergoes the highest levels of scrutiny.

This Government is committed to making the UK a hostile place for illicit finance and economic crime.