§ Mr. Gryllsasked the Secretary of State for Trade what is the amount of inward investment by Japanese companies in the United Kingdom for the years 1974, 1975 and the estimate for 1976; and what proportion of this investment has been in the development areas.
§ Mr. MeacherThe information available relates to Japanese net direct investment in the United Kingdom, excluding oil and insurance, in 1974 and is given in Table 27 of the Business Monitor M4 Overseas Transactions 1974, a copy of which is in the Library. Similar information in respect of 1975 is due to be published next year. Inward direct investment covers a wide range of financial transactions between overseas companies and the accounting centres of their United Kingdom operations and it is not possible to allocate such transactions to their individual operating units in different areas of the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. Gryllsasked the Secretary of State for Trade what is the amount of inward investment by British companies in Japan for the years 1974, 1975 and the estimate for 1976.
§ Mr. MeacherThe information available relates to United Kingdom net direct investment, excluding oil, in 1974 and is given in Table 17 of the Business Monitor M4 Overseas Transactions 1974, a copy of which is in the Library. Similar information in respect of 1975 is due to be published next year.