Another month of growth for UK manufacturing output

Posted on 12 May 2015 by Jonny Williamson

Total production output increased 0.5% between Q4 2014 and Q1 2015, according to the latest Index of Production (IoP) figures, with manufacturing being the largest component.

Released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the figures estimate that manufacturing increased between 0.1% between Oct – Dec 2014 and Jan – March 2015. The largest contributor to the quarterly came from electricity, gas, steam & air conditioning, which rose by 2.7%. Compared to the previous year, March 2015 saw a total…

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