Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 87489

Foreign Investment in UK: North East

Tabled: 3 November 2025
Answered: 10 November 2025

Question

Joe Morris

LabourHexham

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.

Answer

Chris Bryant
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...

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