Source · Select Committees · National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
Recommendation 28
28
Acknowledged
We welcome the Government’s efforts to diversify partnerships, illustrated by deepening trade and security collaboration...
Conclusion
We welcome the Government’s efforts to diversify partnerships, illustrated by deepening trade and security collaboration with India and engagements with Gulf countries. This work is crucial both to ensuring the UK can draw on breadth and depth in its partnerships to support economic growth, and improve resilience during periods of heightened international tension. Recent support by the UK in deploying the RAF to the collective self-defence of Gulf countries in the face of Iranian strikes is welcome. (Conclusion, Paragraph 125)
Government Response Summary
The government agrees on the importance of pursuing strategic relationships and highlights its ongoing efforts, including new partnerships with Japan, Indonesia, and India, and the use of instruments like the National Security and Investment Act.
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
The Government agrees that we should continue to pursue new strategic relationships and bolster existing ones. The National Security Strategy aims to sharpen our diplomatic focus on geographically dispersed, economically vibrant, fast-growing, and advanced economies. To those ends, the government has delivered a range of new and significant partnerships including the UK-Japan Industrial Strategy Partnership, the Strategic Partnership with Indonesia and the UK-India Trade deal. These nations share an interest in counteracting economic coercion and preventing the fragmentation of the international economic order. Furthermore, we are committed to fostering trade and investment relationships that actively promote secure, resilient growth and provide a boost to the UK economy. Key instruments for mitigating national security risks in this context are the National Security and Investment Act and supporting the establishment of an Economic Security Advisory Service.