Chris Ruane
Labour, Vale of Clwyd
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what the level of foreign inward investment into the UK was in each of the last 30 years.
Michael Fallon
The Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills , Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change
UK Trade & Investment has collected data on foreign direct investment (FDI) projects landing in the United Kingdom since 1984. The following table shows the official record of FDI projects landing in the UK from financial year 1984/85 to 2012/13.
| Number of projects | Number of new jobs | Number of safeguarded jobs | Total number of jobs | |
| 1984/85 | 352 | 27,391 | 17,581 | 44,972 |
| 1985/86 | 425 | 26,686 | 22,771 | 49,457 |
| 1986/87 | 359 | 19,430 | 13,521 | 32,951 |
| 1987/88 | 380 | 33,838 | 30,222 | 64,060 |
| 1988/89 | 356 | 26,862 | 16,071 | 42,933 |
| 1989/90 | 379 | 35,997 | 41,995 | 77,992 |
| 1990/91 | 365 | 23,756 | 60,900 | 84,656 |
| 1991/92 | 354 | 22,423 | 31,093 | 53,516 |
| 1992/93 | 332 | 17,821 | 43,359 | 61,180 |
| 1993/94 | 431 | 29,841 | 69,645 | 99,486 |
| 1994/95 | 455 | 38,351 | 53,757 | 92,108 |
| 1995/96 | 497 | 47,347 | 51,167 | 98,514 |
| 1996/97 | 497 | 46,400 | 51,939 | 98,339 |
| 1997/98 | 631 | 46,562 | 82,771 | 129,333 |
| 1998/99 | 670 | 45,217 | 75,523 | 120,740 |
| 1999/2000 | 757 | 52,783 | 81,411 | 134,194 |
| 2000/01 | 869 | 71,488 | 52,291 | 123,779 |
| 2001/02 | 764 | 34,087 | 23,801 | 57,888 |
| 2002/03 | 709 | 34,396 | 19,915 | 54,311 |
| 2003/04 | 811 | 25,463 | 33,754 | 59,217 |
| 2004/05 | 1,066 | 39,592 | 35,451 | 75,043 |
| 2005/06 | 1,220 | 34,077 | 55,789 | 89,866 |
| 2006/07 | 1,431 | 36,526 | 41,831 | 78,357 |
| 2007/08 | 1,573 | 45,051 | 58,488 | 103,539 |
| 2008/09 | 1,744 | 35,111 | 43,429 | 78,540 |
| 2009/10 | 1,619 | 53,358 | 40,988 | 94,346 |
| 2010/11 | 1,434 | 41,936 | 52,662 | 94,598 |
| 2011/12 | 1,406 | 52,741 | 59,918 | 112,659 |
| 2012/13 | 1,559 | 59,153 | 110,943 | 170,096 |
| Total | 23,445 | 1,103,684 | 1,372,986 | 2,476,670 |
Does this answer the above question?
Yes0 people think so
No0 people think not
Would you like to ask a question like this yourself? Use our Freedom of Information site.