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1736675

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date	23/10/2024
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 his Department is taking to help attract foreign direct investment in (a) the Mid-South West and (b) Causeway Coast and Glens in Northern Ireland; and what steps his Department plans to take to promote Northern Ireland's dual market access to help attract investment into these regions.
tabling member constituency	Surrey Heath
tabling member printed	Dr Al Pinkerton
uin	10890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2024 answer text <p>The UK Government’s investment of £126 million into the Mid South West Growth Deal and £36 million into the Causeway Coast and Glens Growth Deal will be focused on digital and innovation projects that take advantage of the opportunities of the future. The two Deals’ ambitious projects will create high-value jobs, increase skills and employability, and create exciting opportunities for foreign direct investment into the two regions.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Northern Ireland enjoys many advantages as a great place to invest and do business, including being part of the UK internal market and enjoying access to the EU single market for goods, and the Government takes every opportunity to make this case to investors.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Leeds South answering member printed Hilary Benn question first answered 30/10/2024 15:58:22 answering member 413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn
tabling member	5288

1734692

registered interest
date	16/10/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
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 Business and Trade, with reference to the press release entitled Record-breaking International Investment Summit secures £63 billion and nearly 38,000 jobs for the UK, published on 14 October 2024, whether she has made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the proportion of (a) that investment that will be disbursed in and (b) those jobs that will be created in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Lagan Valley
tabling member printed	Sorcha Eastwood
uin	9563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2024 answer text <p>The International Investment Summit on the 14th October sought to drive investment across the entirety of the UK. The announcement on 8th of October by bus operator Go Ahead, saw £500 million investment, supporting up to 500 UK manufacturing jobs, to decarbonise its fleet, including creating a new dedicated manufacturing line and partnership with Northern Ireland based bus manufacturer Wrightbus. Furthermore, this investment will accelerate the transition to greener buses across the country including in Plymouth, Gloucestershire, East Yorkshire, London and the Isle of Wight.</p> answering member constituency Croydon West answering member printed Sarah Jones question first answered 25/10/2024 13:49:50 answering member 4631 label Biography information for Sarah Jones
tabling member	5125

1726977

registered interest
date	03/09/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
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 Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to increase inward investment in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	3981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2024 answer text <p>My department is working in partnership with Invest Northern Ireland through DBT’s Trade and Investment hub in Belfast and its wider global network to showcase NI as a location for investment.</p><p>We are focused on driving investment into all parts of the UK, including through our forthcoming International Investment Summit in October 2024.</p> answering member constituency Croydon West answering member printed Sarah Jones question first answered 11/09/2024 15:24:44 answering member 4631 label Biography information for Sarah Jones
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1687333

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
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 his Department has taken to encourage international companies to (a) invest and (b) base themselves in Northern Ireland in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	12941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2024 answer text <p>International investment makes an important contribution towards Northern Ireland's prosperity.</p><p> </p><p>The Northern Ireland Investment Summit, led by the Department for Business and Trade in partnership with the Northern Ireland Office and Invest NI, welcomed over 180 global investors to the region in September. The Summit showcased Northern Ireland’s innovation, sector strengths and opportunities for inward investment to a truly global audience.</p><p> </p><p>We are already seeing new international investment in Northern Ireland’s key growth sectors as a result, along with established companies already based in Northern Ireland announcing that they will be expanding their operations in the region.</p><p> </p><p>My Department continues to work closely with the Department for Business and Trade to maximise opportunities to encourage investment. I attended the Global Investment Summit that the UK hosted in November and met with many businesses interested in setting and scaling up in the UK. My clear message to them was that Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom has all of the right ingredients for economic success: exceptional talent, unique opportunities, a tradition of creativity and a healthy spirit of private sector entrepreneurship.</p><p> </p><p>A key factor for international investment is of course business certainty. We thus welcome the restoration of devolved governance in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 13/02/2024 08:34:58 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1674514

registered interest
date	30/11/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Foreign Investment in UK: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, following reports that 40 per cent of foreign direct investment projects in Northern Ireland in the year to August 2023 came from American companies, what assessment they have made of the diversity of the investor base for foreign direct investment projects in Northern Ireland, and what steps they are taking to ensure further diversification, including from regions who were not invited to the Northern Ireland Investment Summit in September.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Effingham
uin	HL759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) worked closely with the Northern Ireland Office and Invest Northern Ireland to ensure that a diverse group of investors attended the Northern Ireland Investment Summit. Investors from Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia Pacific markets all attended.</p><p>DBT teams globally work in conjunction with Invest NI colleagues to showcase Northern Ireland as a location for investment. The UK Government, via the Northern Ireland Office, has provided support to Invest Northern Ireland for additional international staff across the globe, helping to diversify foreign direct investment.</p> answering member printed Lord Johnson of Lainston question first answered 14/12/2023 12:12:53 answering member 4949 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Lainston
tabling member	4958 label Biography information for The Earl of Effingham

1674530

registered interest
date	30/11/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Foreign Investment in UK: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what tangible outcomes have resulted from the Northern Ireland Investment Summit in Belfast on 12–13 September.
tabling member printed	Lord Rogan
uin	HL775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p>1000 jobs were announced at the Summit and work is now underway to deliver a strong legacy from it, with more investments expected as a result, including follow up activity such as the No. 10 hosted venture capital roundtable, aimed at encouraging venture capital investment into Northern Ireland. We also offered support for Joe Kennedy III’s incoming mission to Northern Ireland in October 2023 (US Special Economic Envoy to Northern Ireland).</p> answering member printed Lord Johnson of Lainston question first answered 13/12/2023 12:36:25 answering member 4949 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Lainston
tabling member	2478 label Biography information for Lord Rogan