Written Question·Cabinet Office·UIN 99141

UK Membership of EU: Referendums

Tabled: 10 December 2025

Answered: 12 January 2026

Question

Mr Angus MacDonald

Liberal Democrat — Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of foreign state influence on UK political activity in the period surrounding the 2016 EU Referendum.

Answer

Dan Jarvis

The UK Government takes issues of foreign interference or attempts to intervene in democratic processes very seriously. Successive governments have not seen any evidence of successful foreign interference in the European Union referendum. The Electoral Co...

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