Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many foreign direct investment projects there have been in the UK over the last five years.

This question was answered on 26th October 2017
Over the last five years the Department for International Trade (DIT) and its predecessor UK Trade and Investment, has recorded 9,798 foreign direct investment projects in the UK.

In 2016/17 DIT registered the highest number of FDI projects coming into the UK it has ever recorded – 2,265 (up 2% on 2015/16).