Member

I hope the Minister will be able to answer the questions that your Lordships’ Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee has suggested that it would be helpful to have answers from the Government on, in particular how the Secretary of State will reliably be able to detect and, if necessary, prove that the state-owned investor can exert influence in cases where the Secretary of State will still be required to intervene within a 15% threshold. I hope she will be able to give us further assurances that the new increased threshold will not undermine the original intention of the foreign state influence regime to protect British newspapers against inappropriate foreign state influence. I think those are valid questions for the committee to ask on our behalf.