An intelligence report is to call for checks over the use of Chinese telecoms equipment in Britain — a warning which threatens to spark a row with Beijing.
The Intelligence and Security Committee of parliamentarians will stress how equipment provided by Chinese company Huawei is now key to parts of the UK’s broadband and mobile phone network.
It is expected to call for an audit to identify where Huawei’s technology is being used. It is also set to propose greater security services’ involvement at a centre in Banbury, Oxfordshire, opened three years ago by Huawei to test equipment.
The report comes amid fears that Huawei has links with the Chinese military and government and was helping to gain information on foreign states and companies —claims that the firm denies.
