"Figure 4: Quarterly foreign direct investment earnings (seasonally adjusted)","" "Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2011 to Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2017","" "","" "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","FDI earnings balance" "Q1 2011","26.4","-13.3","13.1" "Q2 2011","27.2","-11.1","16.1" "Q3 2011","25.2","-14.3","10.9" "Q4 2011","25.9","-12.5","13.3" "Q1 2012","23.8","-14.3","9.4" "Q2 2012","22.2","-13.2","9.0" "Q3 2012","23.4","-13.5","9.9" "Q4 2012","17.8","-11.3","6.5" "Q1 2013","19.8","-14.9","4.9" "Q2 2013","23.4","-14.1","9.3" "Q3 2013","21.6","-15.0","6.5" "Q4 2013","19.3","-12.2","7.1" "Q1 2014","19.1","-12.7","6.3" "Q2 2014","18.1","-12.9","5.3" "Q3 2014","16.2","-14.5","1.6" "Q4 2014","17.8","-17.7","0.0" "Q1 2015","18.7","-16.2","2.5" "Q2 2015","17.1","-11.1","6.0" "Q3 2015","14.1","-9.9","4.2" "Q4 2015","11.9","-15.5","-3.6" "Q1 2016","12.0","-14.4","-2.4" "Q2 2016","14.8","-13.9","0.9" "Q3 2016","18.8","-14.0","4.7" "Q4 2016","19.5","-13.3","6.3" "Q1 2017","18.9","-13.6","5.3"