LONDON: India has emerged as Britain’s third biggest job creator in 2014 as the country saw a 65% increase in foreign direct investments (FDI) from here. India helped create 9,350 jobs in UK in 2014 — second only to the US (36,778 jobs) and Germany (9,727 jobs). But Germany recorded far fewer projects than that of the US, India or France.The data was released by the UK Trade Investment Agency which shows that between 2014 and 2015, India created 7,730 new jobs and safeguarded 1,620 old jobs. In comparison, other European countries like Italy created 2,193 jobs, Spain 3,646, Switzerland 1,489, Sweden 1,382, Denmark 2,015 and Norway 440.Australia created 4,012 jobs in UK in 2014 while Asian giants Japan and Singapore recorded 3,873 jobs and 338 jobs, respectively.Reacting to the news, UK PM David Cameron said, “The scale of foreign investment is a huge success story which shows that Britain is the place to do business. This is a proof that our long term economic plan is working. ”The US was the single largest source of FDI projects recording 564 such initiatives — an increase of just 12% from the previous year. France was the second largest source with 124 projects — an almost 13% increase from last year.But France stood fourth in job creation with 8,198 jobs.Percentage increase in projects was highest from India — 65% over the previous year resulting from 122 projects making it the third largest source of FDI and the largest source of FDI from an Asian country.Michael Boyd, managing director of UKTI, said, “Our increased focus on emerging markets in recent years is starting to pay off. India has become the third largest source market for FDI projects and more than 500 opportunities have been generated through a new, private-sector led delivery model in other emerging markets.”