Foreign Investment in UK

(asked on 14th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the level of foreign direct investment in the UK was in the 12 months (a) prior to and (b) from July 2016.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 20th November 2017

The flow of direct investment into the UK in the year to Q2 2016 totalled £80.8billion. In the year since the EU referendum, inward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows improved to £158.4billion. This has caused the stock of inward FDI to increase from £1.35trillion in 2016Q2 to £1.49trillion in 2017Q2, an increase of £142bn.

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