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The UK Government's third annual report on the National Security and Investment Act 2021 outlines key data and insights on its scrutiny of business transactions from April 2023 to March 2024.
The UK Government has published its third annual report on the
operation of the National Security and Investment Act 2021. The Act
gives the UK Government powers to scrutinise and intervene in
business transactions, such as takeovers, to protect the UK's
national security.
The latest annual report provides key data and statistics on how
the regime under the Act has operated in the period 1 April 2023 to
31 March 2024.
Click below to download our summary of the key data from the
report, covering the number of notifications received, the number
of deals called-in and the sectors which have attracted the
greatest level of scrutiny.
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