Value of acquisitions by foreign companies in the UK Q2 2011-Q4 2022

The source adds the following information: "The M&A surveys are sampled on a continual daily basis. The population of transactions is identified through a process of scrutinizing the financial press, specialized publications and the Internet (websites specializing in information on mergers and acquisitions and also the websites of businesses regularly engaged in merger and acquisition activity). The M&A surveys are unique as these are not sample surveys. They are categorized as being ongoing census surveys with a threshold cut-off for each transaction of £1.0 million on current price basis. Statutory questionnaires are dispatched to businesses when there is initial evidence, from the press and media sources of information that they have relevant transactions on which to report. The business approached is usually the purchaser." More detailed information regarding methodology can be found here.