"Figure 3: Investment in ICT equipment and other machinery and equipment has been declining since 2014, while investment in other buildings and structures continued to grow in 2018","" "Two-term by four-term moving averages of business investment and selected components, chained volume measure, seasonally adjusted, UK, Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2008 to Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2018","" "","" "Notes","1. Q1 is Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2. Q2 is Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 3. Q3 is Quarter 3 (July to Sep) 4. Q4 is Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec)" "Unit","Index, Quarter 1 2008=100" "","" "","Business investment","ICT equipment and other machinery and equipment","Other buildings and structures","Intellectual property products" "Q1 2008","100.0","100","100","100" "Q2 2008","98.6","97","98.3","99.8" "Q3 2008","95.8","92.5","94.5","98.5" "Q4 2008","91.8","86.1","90","96.8" "Q1 2009","86.8","77.8","85.1","94.8" "Q2 2009","82.7","71.6","80.9","93.2" "Q3 2009","80.6","68.2","78.3","92.5" "Q4 2009","80.4","67.8","77.6","92.5" "Q1 2010","81.6","69.8","77.8","93.1" "Q2 2010","83.8","72","78.5","93.8" "Q3 2010","85.3","73.3","80.1","94.3" "Q4 2010","86.2","75.2","82.3","94.6" "Q1 2011","87.5","78.9","84.7","94.7" "Q2 2011","88.9","82.9","87.9","95.1" "Q3 2011","91.0","86.9","90.9","95.4" "Q4 2011","93.0","88.3","93.6","95.8" "Q1 2012","94.0","87.4","96.6","96.5" "Q2 2012","95.3","87.1","99.9","97.3" "Q3 2012","96.1","87.2","102.4","98.6" "Q4 2012","96.6","87.4","103.6","100.2" "Q1 2013","98.2","88.5","105.2","101.6" "Q2 2013","99.0","89.1","105.1","102.6" "Q3 2013","99.5","89.5","104.6","103" "Q4 2013","101.3","92.4","104.1","103.1" "Q1 2014","102.6","95.7","102.4","102.8" "Q2 2014","103.5","97.4","101.1","102.8" "Q3 2014","104.9","97.5","101.9","102.2" "Q4 2014","106.3","96.2","104.2","101.3" "Q1 2015","107.0","94.7","106.5","100.7" "Q2 2015","107.5","93.8","108.6","99.9" "Q3 2015","107.6","93.5","108.8","99.6" "Q4 2015","107.2","92.8","107.1","99.8" "Q1 2016","107.4","91.5","106","99.9" "Q2 2016","107.8","89.6","105.4","100.2" "Q3 2016","107.8","88.3","105.8","100.6" "Q4 2016","108.2","87.5","107.5","101" "2017 Q1","108.6","87.5","109","102" "2017 Q2","109.0","88.1","110.7","103.5" "2017 Q3","109.6","88.8","111.9","105.2" "2017 Q4","109.9","89.2","112.5","106.5" "2018 Q1","109.8","89.1","113.6","107.3" "2018 Q2","109.2","87.9","114.8","107.4"