Member

Regarding the noble Baroness’s questions about what criteria will be used to establish whether the loan agreement enables the lender to exert the requisite degree of influence on the newspaper enterprise, the legislation sets out the circumstances in which there is a foreign state newspaper merger situation and in which a foreign power is able to control or influence the policy of a newspaper enterprise. These are the criteria by which the Secretary of State considers whether there is, or could be, foreign state influence resulting from a merger, based on the facts of each case.