"Figure 6: Earnings by UK investors on foreign direct investments increased in Quarter 4 2019","" "UK foreign direct investment earnings, Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2012 to Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2019 ","" "","" "Notes","1. Q1 refers to Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar), Q2 refers to Quarter 2 (Apr to June), Q3 refers to Quarter 3 (July to Sept) and Q4 refers to Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec)." "Unit","£ billion" "","" "","FDI credits ","FDI debits ","Net FDI earnings" "2012 Q1","23.8","-14.3","9.4" "2012 Q2 ","22.2","-13.2","9.0" "2012 Q3 ","23.4","-13.5","9.9" "2012 Q4 ","17.8","-11.3","6.5" "2013 Q1 ","19.7","-14.8","4.9" "2013 Q2 ","23.2","-14.4","8.8" "2013 Q3 ","21.7","-15.1","6.5" "2013 Q4 ","19.4","-11.9","7.5" "2014 Q1 ","20.1","-11.8","8.3" "2014 Q2 ","18.6","-12.2","6.4" "2014 Q3 ","17.1","-13.5","3.5" "2014 Q4 ","18.5","-16.3","2.2" "2015 Q1 ","19.3","-16.2","3.1" "2015 Q2 ","16.9","-10.5","6.4" "2015 Q3 ","14.1","-9.8","4.3" "2015 Q4 ","12.0","-16.8","-4.7" "2016 Q1 ","11.1","-13.7","-2.6" "2016 Q2 ","14.1","-16.4","-2.3" "2016 Q3 ","16.6","-15.1","1.5" "2016 Q4 ","17.2","-12.7","4.4" "2017 Q1 ","21.4","-13.3","8.1" "2017 Q2 ","22.4","-16.5","5.9" "2017 Q3 ","26.0","-16.9","9.1" "2017 Q4 ","25.7","-17.7","7.9" "2018 Q1 ","26.5","-20.0","6.5" "2018 Q2 ","25.8","-19.3","6.5" "2018 Q3 ","28.2","-23.0","5.2" "2018 Q4 ","22.2","-18.9","3.3" "2019 Q1 ","24.5","-16.1","8.3" "2019 Q2 ","22.5","-14.4","8.1" "2019 Q3 ","22.7","-17.3","5.4" "2019 Q4 ","25.2","-17.6","7.6"