Information between 25th January 2024 - 14th April 2024
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Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
36 speeches (8,195 words) 3rd reading Tuesday 26th March 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Business and Trade Mentions: 1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) This would apply to passive investments by established and pre-existing sovereign wealth funds, pension - Link to Speech 2: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) investment just like any other, and we must not exclude perfectly legitimate foreign state investors such as sovereign - Link to Speech 3: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Sovereign wealth funds have already been mentioned, and the noble Lord has given assurances in this area - Link to Speech 4: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) Secondly, does it fully cover sovereign wealth funds and pension funds held by them, and what is their - Link to Speech |
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Human Rights: Sportswashing
23 speeches (16,210 words) Thursday 21st March 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Mentions: 1: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) The first will be the football regulation Bill, where we will look at sovereign wealth funds and their - Link to Speech 2: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) infrastructure and domestic competitions, investment in teams and leagues internationally, usually through sovereign - Link to Speech |
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Spring Budget 2024
62 speeches (33,280 words) Monday 18th March 2024 - Lords Chamber HM Treasury Mentions: 1: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) Pension and insurance funds have trillions ready to invest, and so do the sovereign wealth funds of other - Link to Speech |
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Life Sciences Businesses
21 speeches (1,916 words) Monday 26th February 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Business and Trade Mentions: 1: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) about trying to establish bases in London for the key life sciences funds from abroad, and working with sovereign - Link to Speech |
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Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
72 speeches (22,317 words) Committee stage Wednesday 31st January 2024 - Grand Committee Department for Business and Trade Mentions: 1: None Another important development is the emergence of sovereign wealth funds in funding class actions. - Link to Speech |
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Monday 4th March 2024
Oral Evidence - Professor Dame Jessica Corner, and Scottish Funding Council Science and Scotland - Scottish Affairs Committee Found: For example, someone who could help them navigate their way through Gulf state sovereign wealth |
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Wednesday 28th February 2024
Written Evidence - C4X Discovery EMD0060 - Emerging diseases and learnings from covid-19 Emerging diseases and learnings from covid-19 - Science, Innovation and Technology Committee Found: Sovereign Wealth Funds may additionally provide such investment as an insurance against future economic |
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Tuesday 20th February 2024
Oral Evidence - Lord Harrington of Watford Industrial policy - Business and Trade Committee Found: In terms of the investment consequences, the mentality of big pension funds, sovereign wealth funds |
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Tuesday 6th February 2024
Oral Evidence - UK Government Investments, UK Government Investments, UK Government Investments, and UK Government Investments Treasury Committee Found: Q61 Dr Coffey: You mentioned sovereign wealth funds a moment ago. |
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Tuesday 30th January 2024
Oral Evidence - Chatham House, Peter Millett, and Denisse Rudich The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa - Foreign Affairs Committee Found: provided expert assistance for compliance with the Santiago principles, which are the principles for all sovereign |
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Tuesday 30th January 2024
Oral Evidence - Allianz How sustainable is our national debt? - Economic Affairs Committee Found: The list is the sovereign wealth funds, Japan and China. That is where geopolitics comes in. |
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Tuesday 30th January 2024
Oral Evidence - Chatham House, Helen Lackner, and Dr Elisabeth Kendall The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa - Foreign Affairs Committee Found: provided expert assistance for compliance with the Santiago principles, which are the principles for all sovereign |
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Business: Sovereign Wealth Funds
Asked by: Geraint Davies (Independent - Swansea West) Wednesday 21st February 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make it her policy to monitor firms with financial ties to sovereign wealth funds originating from countries that do not have transparent and democratic systems to ensure the (a) effective allocation, (b) efficient implementation and (c) transparent reporting of committed funds. Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) The UK is an open economy and we welcome global investment. UK firms that have financial ties to Sovereign Wealth Funds already have to abide by the UK's regulatory regimes for corporate practice, including the Companies Act, 2006. |
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Mar. 22 2024
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill: Supplementary Delegated Powers Memorandum Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill 2022-23 Delegated Powers Memorandum Found: provide that the new regime does not apply to certain foreign state investment organisations, such a sovereign |
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Feb. 06 2024
HL Bill 45 (as brought from the Commons) Finance Act 2024 Bill Found: (9) In section 252(3) (application to sovereign wealth funds), for “government” substitute “ |
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Tuesday 27th February 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Source Page: Hydrogen net zero investment roadmap Document: Hydrogen net zero investment roadmap: leading the way to net zero (PDF) Found: equity as well as debt investors such as existing manufacturers, oil & gas majors, private equity firms, sovereign |