Written questions

Arts: Private Finance Initiative

Commons · Question 30981 · Tabled 12 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 24 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Dame Caroline Dinenage

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he plans to take to increase the evidence base on the impacts of merger and acquisition-led FDI projects in the creative industries.

Answer

Answered by Sarah Jones, 24 Feb 2025

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is cognisant of the increasing levels of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) driven Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), as highlighted in the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre's (PEC) recent "FDI...