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The United Kingdom expects to sign multibillion-pound investment deals with the UAE in clean energy and infrastructure as it looks to deepen its trade and investment ties with the Arab world’s second-largest economy, its trade commissioner for the Middle East said.
The UK is also looking to finalise details of investments into its technology sector that may also reach £1 billion ($1.38bn), Simon Penney told
The National in an interview.
Britain’s Office for Investments, an agency set up this year to promote and channel investments into the UK, expects to get more clarity on the size and scope of potential deals and how they will be structured by the end of June. Deal announcements “most definitely” will take place in the second half of the year, Mr Penney, a former banker who was also appointed the UK s consul general in Dubai in January, said.
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The UK’s most senior civil servant is expected to indicate he has not cleared Boris Johnson’s former adviser Dominic Cummings over the so-called “chatty rat” leak of plans for a second lockdown.
Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary, is expected to say his inquiry into the leak last autumn is still “live” when he appears before the Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC).
Mr Cummings has accused Mr Johnson of seeking to block the investigation after learning that a close friend of his fiancee Carrie Symonds had been implicated, a claim the Prime Minister denied.
Cabinet secretary Simon Case is expected to tell MPs his leak inquiry is still ‘live’ (Stefan Rousseau/PA