Foreign Investment in UK: China
(asked on 27th April 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the level of dependence on Chinese investment of the (a) manufacturing and production industries, (b) IT and internet industries, (c) retail sector and (d) NUTS 1 region.
At at 2018, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) data shows that China had the following FDI positions in UK sectors:
| China Inward FDI Position (£m) | Global Inward FDI Position (£m) | China as % of Total Global FDI to UK |
Manufacturing and Production | 325 | 368,718 | 0.1% |
Information and Communication | 28 | 140,695 | 0.02% |
Retail and Wholesale | 230 | 125,302 | 0.2% |
Total Economy | 1,775 | 1,520,603 | 0.1% |
Estimates of FDI that are based on the UK regional location of such investments are not available.