Committees

Inward Foreign Direct Investment

Inquiry

Background

1. The Committee has launched an inquiry into inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) – where overseas investors acquire ownership of, or a controlling stake in, UK businesses.

 

2. The Committee’s inquiry will look at issues including: Government strategy for promoting and facilitating inward FDI; the role of the new Office for Investment; the proposed National Security and Investment Regime; and the role played in UK inward investment by foreign governments’ Sovereign Wealth Funds.

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Past events

Wednesday 16 June 2021
1:30pm Private
2:00pm Public
Inward Foreign Direct Investment - Oral evidence 16 June 2021
2:00pm
  • Nicolai Tangen (Chief Executive Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management)
  • Trond Grande (Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management)
2:45pm
  • Diego López (Managing Director at Global SWF)
  • Dr Tim Vlandas (Associate Professor of Comparative Social Policy at University of Oxford)
  • Duncan Bonfield (Chief Executive Officer at International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds)
3:30pm
  • Lord Grimstone of Boscobel Kt (Investment Minister at Department for International Trade / Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
  • Lord Callanan (Minister for Business, Energy and Corporate Responsibility at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
  • Ceri Smith (Director General, Strategy and Investment at Department for International Trade)
  • Daniel Gieve (Chief Operating Officer at Office for Investment)
  • Jacqui Ward (Director of National Security and International Directorate at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
Room 16, Palace of Westminster
Wednesday 26 May 2021
2:00pm Private
2:30pm Public
Inward Foreign Direct Investment - Oral evidence 26 May 2021
2:30pm
  • Neil Francis (Interim Managing Director at Scottish Development International)
  • Professor Riccardo Crescenzi (Professor of Economic Geography at London School of Economics)
  • Emily Kent (Head of Economy, Skills and Culture at Cornwall Council)
  • Professor Susan Scholefield CMG (Visiting Professor of Politics at University of Surrey)
3:30pm
  • Lawrence Slade (Chief Executive at Global Infrastructure Investor Association)
  • Dr Ashley Thomas Lenihan (Fellow, Centre for International Studies at London School of Economics)
  • Camilla de Coverly Veale (Head of Regulation at The Coalition for a Digital Economy)
Virtual meeting