Business investment for Q4 2009 is estimated to have fallen by 5.8% and by 24.1% over the year. The figure for Q4 was £27,121m. Investment by public and private sector manufacturing fell by 8.2% (CVM) on the previous quarter and 35.3% over the year. The figure for Q4 was £2,304m.
Investment in services fell by 8.3% in Q4 and compared with Q4 2008 have fallen by 30.6% to £18,376m. Other production increased their investment by 7.8% on the previous quarter and by 20.9% compared with Q4 2008 to £5,070m. Construction investment fell by 24.5% on Q3 2009 and by 22.3% on Q4 2008 to £435m.
Investment in both computer sofware and hardware by the private sector increased over the qaurter. Total private sector computer software investment for Q4 2009 was £1,486m up from £1,387m in Q3. Total private sector computer hardware investment in Q4 2009 was £1,396m up from £1,251m. These estimates seem to suggest that about 9.75% of private sector business investment was in Q4 2009 on computer software and hardware. This was divided 5% and 4.75% between software and hardware respectively. In manufacturing, investment in computer software and hardware was about 9.25% and in the service sector it was about 11.75%.
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