UK Government Backs Jaguar Land Rover With 1.5B Pound Loan

Carmaker Anticipates Phased Restart of Production Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • September 29, 2025

The British government will guarantee a 1.5 billion pound loan to Jaguar Land Rover as the embattled carmaker grapples with the fallout of a September cyberattack that froze production and sales across the globe.

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The U.K. government on Sunday said it will offer a loan guarantee of roughly $2 billion to the luxury carmaker. A breach detected Sept. 1 prompted the company to shut down production lines in the United Kingdom, Slovakia, Brazil and India (see: Jaguar Land Rover Extends Production Halt).

A government official said the loan amount, underwritten by export credit agency U.K. Export Finance, is necessary to help "support the supply chain ...