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Questions That The Government Needs To Urgently Answer About The Sale of Newport Wafer Fab, – the semiconductor manufacturer, sold to a Chinese company.

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Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty’s Government what account it took of national security interests in permitting the sale of Newport Wafer Fab, which makes semiconductors, to a Chinese company. Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty’s Government what account it took of the concern expressed by Ciaran Martin, the U.K.’s former cybersecurity chief, that there were “very real concerns” about the Chinese buyout of Newport Wafer Fab and that it posed a greater threat than allowing Chinese telecoms firm Huawei to build the U.K.’s 5G network, Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty’s Government why…

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