Business investment
Business investment in the UK, £ million per quarter at chained volume measures (adjusted for prices), seasonally adjusted.
Business investment
£83.5bn
Q2 2026
Verified against source, 29 October 2026, 11:54 UTCSource: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
40 periods, newest first
| Period | Business investment |
|---|---|
| Q2 2026 | £83.5bn |
| Q1 2026 | £82.1bn |
| Q4 2025 | £79.7bn |
| Q3 2025 | £81.4bn |
| Q2 2025 | £79.4bn |
| Q1 2025 | £80.6bn |
| Q4 2024 | £77.0bn |
| Q3 2024 | £78.1bn |
| Q2 2024 | £77.7bn |
| Q1 2024 | £76.2bn |
| Q4 2023 | £75.9bn |
| Q3 2023 | £75.2bn |
| Q2 2023 | £77.0bn |
| Q1 2023 | £77.4bn |
| Q4 2022 | £75.1bn |
| Q3 2022 | £76.3bn |
| Q2 2022 | £77.0bn |
| Q1 2022 | £76.2bn |
| Q4 2021 | £74.2bn |
| Q3 2021 | £71.8bn |
| Q2 2021 | £71.9bn |
| Q1 2021 | £68.5bn |
| Q4 2020 | £71.7bn |
| Q3 2020 | £67.4bn |
| Q2 2020 | £58.0bn |
| Q1 2020 | £73.1bn |
| Q4 2019 | £74.1bn |
| Q3 2019 | £74.6bn |
| Q2 2019 | £74.7bn |
| Q1 2019 | £74.3bn |
| Q4 2018 | £72.2bn |
| Q3 2018 | £71.2bn |
| Q2 2018 | £72.9bn |
| Q1 2018 | £75.4bn |
| Q4 2017 | £75.0bn |
| Q3 2017 | £73.6bn |
| Q2 2017 | £72.8bn |
| Q1 2017 | £74.0bn |
| Q4 2016 | £72.8bn |
| Q3 2016 | £76.6bn |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Office for National Statistics
- Check it yourself
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/timeseries/npel/qna
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 29 October 2026, 11:46 UTC
- Publisher release
- 2026-09-29T23:00:00.000Z; next release 12 November 2026
- Series as published
- Gross Fixed Capital Formation: Business Investment: CVM SA: £m (NPEL, dataset QNA)
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/timeseries/npel/qna/dataSHA-256 048f00d22f605c382beb436678583403ba0ef2efa95091b86e11c77fe019ab06 · 30,038 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 29 October 2026, 11:54 UTC Run at 29 October 2026, 11:54 UTC; 40 of 40 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Office for National Statistics; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-10-29T11:46:27Z; 1 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 1 of 1 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 40 of 40 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 40 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 40 of 40 figures match exactly after downloading 1 source file(s) again (1 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | ONS CSV download agrees | 40 of 40 figures match the CSV at https://www.ons.gov.uk/generator?format=csv&uri=/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/timeseries/npel/qna |
| Pass | ONS series is current | last released 2026-09-29, 29 days before retrieval (limit 400); next release 12 November 2026 |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/timeseries/npel/qna – HTTP 200 |