Foreign direct investment projects landing in the UK
Official statistics
Foreign direct investment projects that landed in the UK each financial year, by type, from DBT's inward investment results.
FDI projects landing in the UK
1,020
2025/26 · 679 of them new investments
Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 15:10 UTC- FDI projects
- New investment
- Expansions
- Mergers and acquisitions
Source: Department for Business and Trade. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
11 periods, newest first
| Period | FDI projects | New investment | Expansions | Mergers and acquisitions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 1,020 | 679 | 257 | 84 |
| 2024/25 | 1,375 | 815 | 373 | 187 |
| 2023/24 | 1,555 | 1,023 | 357 | 175 |
| 2022/23 | 1,654 | 1,048 | 407 | 199 |
| 2021/22 | 1,589 | 907 | 466 | 216 |
| 2020/21 | 1,538 | 888 | 477 | 173 |
| 2019/20 | 1,852 | 1,153 | 504 | 195 |
| 2018/19 | 1,782 | 1,035 | 554 | 193 |
| 2017/18 | 2,072 | 1,179 | 714 | 179 |
| 2016/17 | 2,265 | 1,237 | 822 | 206 |
| 2015/16 | 2,213 | 1,130 | 821 | 262 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Department for Business and Trade
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/inward-investment-results
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 9 November 2026, 14:55 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistics/department-for-international-trade-inward-investment-results-2016-to-2017SHA-256 6f7f4a823cb67baae1c9631dc68d3672d3c94289a8cf79647add335b988f3175 · 2,789 bytes
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Verification
Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 15:10 UTC Run at 9 November 2026, 15:10 UTC; 44 of 44 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Department for Business and Trade; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-09T14:55:21Z; 18 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 18 of 18 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 44 of 44 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's accreditation match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 44 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 44 of 44 figures match exactly after downloading 18 source file(s) again (18 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's accreditation match |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2025/26 ended 223 days before retrieval (limit 500), from DBT inward investment results tables 2025 to 2026 |
| Pass | Table 4.1's UK totals agree | 3 of 3 figures match Table 4.1 of the newest stored tables |
| Pass | DBT's web version agrees | 1 of 1 figures the web version https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbt-inward-investment-results-2025-to-2026/dbt-inward-investment-results-2025-to-2026-web-version states match, each rounded half up as it rounds them |
| Pass | The project types make up all projects | 26 of 26 cases of the editions' years give new investments, expansions, and mergers and acquisitions that add up to all FDI projects |
| Pass | New and existing investors make up all projects | 26 of 26 cases of the editions' years give projects by investors new to the UK and existing investors that add up to all FDI projects |
| Pass | Each edition gives the newer editions' figures | 60 of 60 cases of the figures the 8 older editions give for a year a newer one gives too are the record's, taken from the newest |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/inward-investment-results – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Projects DBT records as landing in the UK each financial year: new investments, expansions of existing investments, and mergers and acquisitions of at least 10% of a UK company's equity or assets.
- DBT's 2016 to 2017 edition reclassified 40 retention projects from mergers and acquisitions to expansions; every later edition gives the same figures for the years it shares with another.