"Figure 6: Value and number of acquisitions abroad by UK companies, Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2006 to Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2016","" "","" "","" "Notes","1. At Quarter 1 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 in the figure. 2. All values are at current prices (See Background notes). 3. .. Denotes disclosive figures." "Unit","Value (£ million) / Total number of transactions" "","" "Period","Value (£ million)","Total number of transactions" "Q1 2006","7629","94" "Q2 2006","6517","98" "Q3 2006","15171","98" "Q4 2006","8095","115" "Q1 2007","4506","108" "Q2 2007","17617","105" "Q3 2007","9873","141" "Q4 2007","25818","87" "Q1 2008","15946","86" "Q2 2008","5729","91" "Q3 2008","4247","72" "Q4 2008","3748","49" "Q1 2009","3744","17" "Q2 2009","2811","32" "Q3 2009","2574","28" "Q4 2009","1019","41" "Q1 2010","1027","30" "Q2 2010","2293","49" "Q3 2010","5308","54" "Q4 2010","3786","66" "Q1 2011","19848","70" "Q2 2011","10982","75" "Q3 2011","6816","77" "Q4 2011","12588","64" "Q1 2012","772","25" "Q2 2012","6243","41" "Q3 2012","8231","21" "Q4 2012","2687","35" "Q1 2013","1977","27" "Q2 2013","1045","13" "Q3 2013","474","7" "Q4 2013","..","11" "Q1 2014","1944","30" "Q2 2014","2481","25" "Q3 2014","4470","23" "Q4 2014","11752","35" "Q1 2015","9391","49" "Q2 2015","11058","31" "Q3 2015","2103","39" "Q4 2015","3009","51" "Q1 2016","8550","39" "Q2 2016","1883","34" "Q3 2016","3140","49" "Q4 2016","3092","13"