Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to prevent any fall in the amount of foreign direct investment if the UK were to vote to leave the EU.

The Government’s position is that the UK will be stronger, safer and better off remaining in a reformed EU.

Recently published Government analysis - ‘HM Treasury analysis: the long-term economic impact of EU membership and the alternatives’ – described the evidence that EU membership has supported foreign direct investment into the UK.

It concludes that foreign direct investment flows into the UK would fall by between 10% and 26% if the UK left the EU, depending on the alternative arrangement.