"Figure 6: Value and number of acquisitions abroad by UK companies Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2006 to Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2015 ","" "","" "","" "Notes","1. At Q1 2010 the deal identification threshold for the mergers and acquisitions surveys was raised from £0.1 million to £1.0 million. There is therefore a discontinuity in the number of transactions reported as illustrated above. 2. All values are at current prices (see Background Notes for definition)." "Unit","" "","" "","Total number of transactions","Value (£ million)" "Q1 2006","94","7629" "Q2 2006","98","6517" "Q3 2006","98","15171" "Q4 2006","115","8095" "Q1 2007","108","4506" "Q2 2007","105","17617" "Q3 2007","141","9873" "Q4 2007","87","25818" "Q1 2008","86","15946" "Q2 2008","91","5729" "Q3 2008","72","4247" "Q4 2008","49","3748" "Q1 2009","17","3744" "Q2 2009","32","2811" "Q3 2009","28","2574" "Q4 2009","41","1019" "Q1 2010","30","1027" "Q2 2010","49","2293" "Q3 2010","54","5308" "Q4 2010","66","3786" "Q1 2011","70","19848" "Q2 2011","75","10982" "Q3 2011","77","6816" "Q4 2011","64","12588" "Q1 2012","25","772" "Q2 2012","41","6243" "Q3 2012","21","8231" "Q4 2012","35","2687" "Q1 2013","27","1977" "Q2 2013","13","1045" "Q3 2013","7","474" "Q4 2013","11",".." "Q1 2014","30","1944" "Q2 2014","25","2481" "Q3 2014","23","4470" "Q4 2014","35","11752" "Q1 2015","49","9391" "Q2 2015","32","11058" "Q3 2015","22","1765" "Q4 2015","33","2173"