"Figure 4: Quarterly foreign direct investment earnings (seasonally adjusted)","" "Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2011 to Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2018","" "","" "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 earnings balance","FDI debits","FDI credits" "2011 Q4 ","13.3","-12.5","25.9" "2012 Q1 ","9.4","-14.3","23.8" "2012 Q2 ","9.0","-13.2","22.2" "2012 Q3 ","9.9","-13.5","23.4" "2012 Q4 ","6.5","-11.3","17.8" "2013 Q1 ","4.9","-14.8","19.7" "2013 Q2 ","8.8","-14.4","23.2" "2013 Q3 ","6.5","-15.1","21.7" "2013 Q4 ","7.5","-11.9","19.4" "2014 Q1 ","8.3","-11.8","20.1" "2014 Q2 ","6.4","-12.2","18.6" "2014 Q3 ","3.5","-13.5","17.1" "2014 Q4 ","2.2","-16.3","18.5" "2015 Q1 ","3.1","-16.2","19.3" "2015 Q2 ","6.4","-10.5","16.9" "2015 Q3 ","4.3","-9.8","14.1" "2015 Q4 ","-4.7","-16.8","12.0" "2016 Q1 ","-2.6","-13.6","11.1" "2016 Q2 ","-2.5","-16.7","14.2" "2016 Q3 ","0.7","-15.7","16.5" "2016 Q4 ","2.7","-14.0","16.6" "2017 Q1 ","7.2","-12.2","19.4" "2017 Q2 ","3.5","-15.7","19.2" "2017 Q3 ","7.0","-15.7","22.7" "2017 Q4 ","4.4","-16.1","20.5" "2018 Q1 ","4.8","-17.2","22.0"