"Figure 4: Quarterly foreign direct investment earnings (seasonally adjusted)","" "Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2011 to Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2017","" "","" "Notes","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","FDI earnings balance" "2011 Q2 ","27.2","-11.1","16.1" "2011 Q3 ","25.2","-14.3","10.9" "2011 Q4 ","25.9","-12.5","13.3" "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 ","19.4","-16.3","3.1" "2015 Q2 ","17.2","-11.2","6.0" "2015 Q3 ","14.0","-9.5","4.5" "2015 Q4 ","11.3","-15.7","-4.4" "2016 Q1 ","11.5","-14.7","-3.2" "2016 Q2 ","13.4","-16.7","-3.3" "2016 Q3 ","16.8","-15.4","1.4" "2016 Q4 ","15.8","-13.5","2.3" "2017 Q1 ","18.7","-15.2","3.5" "2017 Q2 ","19.3","-16.3","3.0"