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1037109

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Foreign Investment in UK: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions she has had with the Tourist Board in Northern Ireland on promoting the benefits of Northern Ireland to foreign investors.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	205878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Office works closely with Tourism NI and the rest of Northern Ireland government departments to ensure that the work to highlight Northern Ireland as a great place to invest provides them with the support that they want. I am a former Tourism Minister myself, and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland regularly promotes inward investment to Northern Ireland, such as on her visit to the United States in September of last year.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 14/01/2019 10:29:38 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

968332

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Foreign Investment in UK: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps she is taking to ensure that foreign investment in Northern Ireland continues.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	170745
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>Northern Ireland has proven itself to be a top destination for foreign direct investment, with over 900 international companies investing in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and I regularly champion new investment announcements in Northern Ireland, which show that Northern Ireland continues to be a great place to invest and do business, and the Secretary of State was present at the announcement by PA Consulting that they will be creating 400 new jobs in Belfast over the next five years.</p><p> </p><p>We are working to restore a stable, devolved government which can work with the UK Government to maximise Northern Ireland’s attractiveness to overseas investors.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 10/09/2018 09:40:03 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

386456

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Foreign Investment in UK: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what recent steps they have taken to encourage inward investment in Northern Ireland.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government works closely with the Executive to attract inward investment to Northern Ireland. The Economic Pact, ‘Building a Prosperous and United Community’ delivered a Northern Ireland International Investment Conference at which the Prime Minister made the keynote address; the first ever joint UK-Irish trade mission with ministers from London, Belfast and Dublin; and corporation tax legislation which completed its Parliamentary stages and became law just before the General Election.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Dunlop question first answered 14/07/2015 11:26:33 answering member 4534 label Biography information for Lord Dunlop
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

347284

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Foreign Investment in UK: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent steps she has taken to encourage inward investment in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Bury South
tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
uin	452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>I am due to meet with a number of business organisations in Northern Ireland in the coming weeks to discuss a range of issues including investment. Additionally, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State recently met with the Chief Executive of Invest NI and we will continue to work with the Executive to promote Northern Ireland as a great place to invest and do business.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers question first answered 02/06/2015 10:03:41 answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers
tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis