The statistics in the table are estimates of the amount of investment in assets purchased for leasing out; they cover such investment made by banks, by non-bank finance houses and by specialist finance leasing subsidiaries (or associates) of these institutions and of other companies. By far the greater part of the expenditure is on assets to be leased out under finance leases, but expenditure by these companies on assets for leasing out on other terms is also included. The figures exclude the value of non-owned assets leased out.
Finance leasing: estimates of investment in assets for leasing out