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Foreign Influence Registration Scheme: China

Asked by Priti PatelConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 30 October 2025UIN 81837

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason she has not placed China on the enhanced tier of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme.

Answered by Dan Jarvis

No decision has been made in relation to specifying China on the enhanced tier of FIRS. As I set out in the House of Commons on 13th October, we look very carefully at any question of whether to place a particular country on the enhanced tier of the scheme.

Any changes to the countries listed will be announced first in Parliament in the usual way.

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