Recommendation 10

With cross-Government working comes a need for cross-committee scrutiny. If the Government is to succeed in achieving an “integrated” approach to UK security and foreign policy as set out in the Integrated Review, Government departments must be held to account by all committees with the relevant remit and expertise. In the case of the Investment Security Unit, this would ensure that scrutiny of Government decisions is not only conducted by select committees with a primarily pro-business lens, but would provide a more balanced and nuanced assessment of its decisions.