Foreign Investment in UK: Manufacturing Industries
(asked on 12th September 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Trade in the Westminster Hall debate of 12 September 2017, on foreign direct investment, when the decisions were announced on foreign direct investment by the car manufacturers to which the Minister referred.
This question was answered on 20th September 2017
Investment decisions by BMW, Toyota and Nissan were announced as follows:
- On 25 July 2017, BMW announced that a fully electric version of the Mini will be built at the Cowley plant in Oxford.
- On 16 March 2017 Toyota Motor Europe announced that it is investing £240 million to upgrade its car plant in Burnaston, Derbyshire.
- On 27 October 2016 Nissan announced it would build the next models of the Qashqai and the X-Trail at its Sunderland plant.