Investment into Britain fell by half to £97bn, while outflows, or British companies making investments abroad, collapsed to £111bn from £275bn the year before.
That has to be simply some subset to the capital account, not the whole of it.
For as far as I\’m aware we\’re still running a trade deficit and the current and capital accounts must balance for the balance of payments must balance.
I think it\’s just FDI (foreign direct investment) for given that we do indeed have a trade deficit there must be more capital coming into the country than leaving it, by definition.
UK trade/investment flows are notoriously – probably deliberately – opaque. This is the laughable attempt at making them match up
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_economy/PB09.pdf