Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 16 June 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills which 10 countries provide the highest level of inward investment in each of the sectors mentioned in the Plan for Growth; and what proportion of such investment by each such country has been in research and development in each of the last 10 years.
It is not possible to provide information of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) funded by country using the Plan for Growth sectors. This is because the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) figures for FDI by sector and country do not use the same sector definitions as the Plan for Growth and much of the sector/country data it does seek to show are not publicly available due to restrictions on data disclosure.
It is also not possible to estimate what proportion of investment by each such country has been in UK research and development. While the ONS collect data on FDI flows to the UK by country, the ONS do not publish a disaggregation by source country of inward investment made specifically into research and development.
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