Foreign Investment in UK: Lincolnshire
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many jobs were created in Lincolnshire as a result of foreign direct investment in the last five years.
Answered by Sarah Jones
Official statistics at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbt-inward-investment-results-2023-to-2024 show that 1,295 new jobs were created in Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) in 2021-22, 1,159 in 2022-23 and 198 in 2023-24. Statistics at LEP level are not available for previous years. Figures were published at International Territorial Level 2 (ITL2) for the first time in 2023-24 which showed that 182 new jobs were created in Lincolnshire. Previous years figures at ITL2 level are not available.
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