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Sixth report - Sovereignty for sale: follow-up to the acquisition of Newport Wafer Fab
Foreign Affairs Committee
HC 1245
Published 5 April 2022
Conclusions (2)
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Conclusion
Para 18
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 …
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Conclusion
The Government has explicitly recognised the criticality of semiconductors to the UK’s national security and wider global interests; likewise, the Chinese Government’s ambitions to achieve self-sufficiency in semiconductors and the means by which it aims to achieve this are well documented. These factors, compounded by the current global semiconductor shortage, …