HC Deb 14 March 1990 vol 169 c273W
Mr. Butterfill

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the business fixed investment figures in the United Kingdom for the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Norman Lamont

The latest annual data for business investment are:

£ billion
1985 prices
1984 36.9
1985 39.7
1986 39.5
1987 43.7
1988 51.4

In the five years to 1988 (1983–88) business investment grew by over 50 per cent. in real terms.

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