Foreign Investment in UK

(asked on 23rd November 2015) - View Source

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many (a) foreign direct investment projects were developed in the UK which originated from other EU countries in (i) 2012-13, (ii) 2013-14 and (iii) 2014-15, (b) jobs were created by those projects and (c) jobs were safeguarded by those projects.


Answered by
Anna Soubry Portrait
Anna Soubry
This question was answered on 26th November 2015

Below is a breakdown of all successful foreign direct investment projects from EU countries in 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 together with the estimated number of jobs created and safeguarded, as recorded by UK Trade & Investment.


Number of Inward FDI Projects originating from EU recorded by UKTI


Projects

New Jobs

Safeguarded jobs

2012-13

504

15,399

35,073

2013-14

564

20,432

22,805

2014-15

658

28,250

6,686

Source: UKTI FDI projects database.

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