[holding answer 9 December 2008]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated December 2008:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking for the (a) inflow and (b) outflow of foreign capital into the UK in each month since January 2004.(241564)
The Office for National Statistics does not collect data for total inflows and total outflows of foreign capital into the UK. Data is compiled for net inflows only, that is total inflows of foreign capital less total outflows of foreign capital. This data is not available on a monthly basis but. is compiled on a quarterly basis. Therefore data for net inflows of foreign capital into the UK are attached for every quarter since the first quarter of 2004.
This data is published in the quarterly Balance of Payments First Release.
£ million Direct investment in the UK Portfolio investment in the UK Equity capital Reinvested earnings Other capital transactions Total direct investment in the UK Equity securities Debt securities Total portfolio investment the UK Other investment the UK Total investment in the UK by non-residents HJYR CYFV HMAD HJYU XBLW XBLX HHZF XBMN HBNS 2004 23,716 8,558 -1,066 31,208 -6,938 95,487 88,549 425,577 545,334 2005 82,949 10,501 4,395 97,845 9,482 123,236 132,718 487,400 717,963 2006 55,393 22,195 7,301 84,889 -10,122 164,078 153,956 382,315 621,160 2007 87,809 24,288 -13,947 98,150 17,327 192,464 209,791 732,367 1,040,308 2004 Q1 1,382 2,759 1,131 5,272 -132 53,300 53,168 219,446 277,886 Q2 7,127 1,776 -2,865 6,038 -2,877 16,102 13,225 65,824 85,087 Q3 3,676 3,319 365 7,360 -1,382 17,047 15,665 84,968 107,993 Q4 11,531 704 303 12,538 -2,547 9,038 6,491 55,339 74,368 2005 Q1 8,445 2,632 4,765 15,842 11,379 47,322 58,701 199,555 274,098 Q2 2,786 3,141 8,598 14,525 3,608 25,308 28,916 131,625 175,066 Q3 64,961 3,497 2,252 70,710 -14,199 19,047 4,848 93,865 169,423 Q4 6,757 1,231 -11,220 -3,232 8,694 31,559 40,253 62,355 99,376 2006 Q1 25,916 4,857 3,480 34,253 -10,555 38,602 28,047 290,389 352,689 Q2 13,870 6,829 2,426 23,125 -7,215 29,914 22,699 -39,954 5,870 Q3 12,481 8,098 -749 19,830 12,161 49,318 61,479 55,629 136,938 Q4 3,126 2,411 2,144 7,681 -4,513 46,244 41,731 76,251 125,663 2007 Q1 12,843 7,437 -6,624 13,656 -294 34,936 34,642 410,748 459,046 Q2 25,264 5,761 -7,104 23,921 3,653 88,388 92,041 89,289 205,251 Q3 16,198 5,636 -8,439 13,395 -8,279 44,149 35,870 117,156 166,421 Q4 33,504 5,454 8,220 47,178 22,247 24,991 47,238 115,174 209,590 2008 Q1 23,784 5,730 -5,415 24,099 6,772 45,770 52,542 218,731 295,372 Q2 11,405 5,606 -2,766 14,245 14,557 83,270 97,827 -433,671 -321,599