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Foreign Influence Registration Scheme

Commons · Question 23031 · Tabled 9 Jan 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 14 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Nick Timothy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 October 2024 to Question 7443 on Trade Unions: Subversion, whether the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme will regulate foreign actors seeking to (a) lobby and (b) influ

Answer

Answered by Dan Jarvis, 14 Jan 2025

The scheme’s political influence tier seeks to increase transparency of foreign power influence over the core aspects of the UK’s democracy, including elections, political party proceedings, parliamentarians and decisions of the Government, but is limited...