Recommendation 1

In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, we have no choice but to assume that the NSA review that the Prime Minister said he had initiated has not, in fact, been started. In its response to this report, we ask that the Government set out the circumstances in which the National Security Adviser is engaged in reviews under the National Security and Investment or Enterprise Acts; the reasons why the Prime Minister asked the NSA to undertake a review of Newport Wafer Fab; why the NSA did not undertake such a review; and for an update on the nature of the continued monitoring by the Investment Security Unit