Levels of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the North West fell in 2021 - but the region's FDI levels stayed at broadly pre-pandemic levels while Manchester remained an investment hotspot.
The 2022 EY Attractiveness Survey showed 74 projects were hosted in the North West in 2021 - down on 2020’s 85 projects but one up on the 73 projects delivered in 2019.
That left the North West’s share of the UK FDI market at 7.5% – down from 8.7% in 2020, but above the 6.6% share in 2019 and 2018.