AQW 23997/17-22

Ms Sinéad McLaughlin
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Foyle

Tabled Date: 08/10/2021
Answered On Date: 07/12/2021
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether Invest NI has been instructed or encouraged to cease promoting, to inward and indigenous investors, the benefits of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in terms of open access to both the UK Internal Market and the EU Single Market.

Answer:

Northern Ireland is a great place to work and do business in for all sorts of reasons. Different companies will have different priorities and Invest NI has the freedom to pitch the benefits of Northern Ireland in accordance to what is relevant to individual investors. I, nor my Department, dictates how Invest NI promotes Northern Ireland to investors.