"Figure 2: Quarterly value and number of acquisitions of UK companies by other 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","" "","" "","Number","Value" "Q1 2006","207","6969" "Q2 2006","208","4222" "Q3 2006","163","11376" "Q4 2006","201","5944" "Q1 2007","191","5649" "Q2 2007","212","10122" "Q3 2007","258","7846" "Q4 2007","208","3161" "Q1 2008","172","4545" "Q2 2008","183","9593" "Q3 2008","104","4133" "Q4 2008","99","18198" "Q1 2009","88","8206" "Q2 2009","59","729" "Q3 2009","62","1886" "Q4 2009","77","1374" "Q1 2010","67","1361" "Q2 2010","95","2032" "Q3 2010","80","2949" "Q4 2010","83","6263" "Q1 2011","76","1500" "Q2 2011","94","3346" "Q3 2011","97","1452" "Q4 2011","106","1791" "Q1 2012","62","1070" "Q2 2012","81","1041" "Q3 2012","62","610" "Q4 2012","61","692" "Q1 2013","39","2825" "Q2 2013","68","2438" "Q3 2013","72","1166" "Q4 2014","59","1236" "Q1 2014","40","1613" "Q2 2014","51","1625" "Q3 2014","42","3152" "Q4 2014","56","1642" "Q1 2015","45","1709" "Q2 2015","56","2720" "Q3 2015","55","1156" "Q4 2015","41","670"