Mr Major’s Written Parliamentary Answer on Foreign Investment – 8 June 1989

Below is the text of Mr Major’s written Parliamentary Answer on Foreign Investment on 8th June 1989.

Mr. Battle To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the net flow of foreign direct and portfolio investment into the United Kingdom in 1988.

Mr. Major Direct and portfolio investment in the United Kingdom by overseas residents (net of disinvestment) is provisionally estimated at £11.2 billion in 1988.