"Figure 7: Quarterly levels and quarter-on-quarter growth of business investment, chained volume measure, seasonally adjusted","" "Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2008 to Quarter 3 (July to Sept) 2018, 2016, UK","" "","" "Notes","1. Q1 equals Quarter 1 (January to March), Q2 equals Quarter 2 (April to June), Q3 equals Quarter 3 (July to September), Q4 equals Quarter 4 (October to December). 2. The data in this chart cover Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2008 to Quarter 3 (July to Sept) 2018. " "Unit","Growth rate (%) and £ million" "","" "","£ million","% growth" "Q1 2008","41975","-7.7" "Q2 2008","44114","5.1" "Q3 2008","42115","-4.5" "Q4 2008","40348","-4.2" "Q1 2009","37572","-6.9" "Q2 2009","34697","-7.7" "Q3 2009","34140","-1.6" "Q4 2009","34213","0.2" "Q1 2010","36134","5.6" "Q2 2010","35674","-1.3" "Q3 2010","37187","4.2" "Q4 2010","38624","3.9" "Q1 2011","37060","-4.0" "Q2 2011","37781","1.9" "Q3 2011","39524","4.6" "Q4 2011","41298","4.5" "Q1 2012","41811","1.2" "Q2 2012","39733","-5.0" "Q3 2012","41141","3.5" "Q4 2012","44213","7.5" "Q1 2013","41725","-5.6" "Q2 2013","41826","0.2" "Q3 2013","44248","5.8" "Q4 2013","43875","-0.8" "Q1 2014","44114","0.5" "Q2 2014","45357","2.8" "Q3 2014","45432","0.2" "Q4 2014","45705","0.6" "Q1 2015","47195","3.3" "Q2 2015","47152","-0.1" "Q3 2015","45985","-2.5" "Q4 2015","47023","2.3" "Q1 2016","46221","-1.7" "Q2 2016","46622","0.9" "Q3 2016","47330","1.5" "Q4 2016","46858","-1.0" "Q1 2017","46762","-0.2" "Q2 2017","47365","1.3" "Q3 2017","47779","0.9" "Q4 2017","47971","0.4" "Q1 2018","47634","-0.7" "Q2 2018","47453","-0.4" "Q3 2018","46913","-1.1"