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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 2 December 2025

Debate

Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) (No. 2) Regulations 2025

Contribution

While I am content with these regulations, I want to raise two other matters that are not covered by this instrument but are related. The first is debt financing. Will the Minister explain how this works with a 15% cap? I know that it has long been the Government’s position, and I think the same was true of the previous Government, that it is not necessary to add specific legislative provisions to exempt debt financing from the regime. In a letter to me, the Minister explained that this position is on the basis that,

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