Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate he has made of the amount of foreign direct investment into the Coast to Capital local enterprise partnership area since 2016.

Although we do not publish data specifically for this particular enterprise partnership, the South East region has seen a steady increase in the past few years. The region saw 217 FDI projects increase to 294 from 2016/17 to 2017/18 with 5,432 and 5,238 new jobs being created in each year. This demonstrates the attractiveness of the UK regions to foreign investment, and the benefits these investments bring to our economy. The UK remains the number one foreign direct investment destination in Europe.