Recommendation 6

The Government has published a multitude of security reviews and sectoral evaluations, but not a single consolidated assessment of the threats to UK economic security. Given the lack of a “single source of truth”, we have decided to summarise our own baseline assessment of economic security threats. We hope that Parliament will enhance and develop this ‘parliamentary view’ over the years ahead. From our evidence, we have identified ten elements of the threat landscape facing the UK economy: i. Transnational risks; ii. Disruption to worldwide market competition; iii. State threats, including the coercive use of economic tools; iv. Supply chain disruptions, along with threats to transport and sea lanes; 93 v. Critical minerals; vi. Critical National Infrastructure (CNI); vii. Cyber and emerging technology; viii. Illicit finance and money laundering; ix. Foreign investment in critical sectors of the UK economy; and x. People-focussed threats, such as intellectual property (IP) theft or physical threats to executives. (Conclusion, Paragraph 31)