Question follow-through · 87489
Foreign Investment in UK: North East
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the potential impact of foreign direct investment projects on economic growth in the North East in the last (a) five years and (b) ten years.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 3 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 10 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the potential impact of foreign direct investment projects on economic growth in the North East in the last (a) five years and (b) ten years.
5 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Nov 2025
Answer published
DBT’s Official Statistics on inward investment at Inward investment results - GOV.UK show the number of Foreign Direct Investment projects and new jobs created in the North East as per the tables below. 2015-162016-172017-182018-192019-20FDI projects77696...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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