Business investment growth in 2016 has been revised up by 1.1 percentage points but still fell in 2016 compared with 2015 by 0.4%; quarter-on-quarter growth was also revised from flat to 0.5% growth in Quarter 2 2017. Household expenditure growth slowed to 0.2% in Quarter 2 2017 and was revised downwards in the second half of 2016. Estimates in this bulletin are consistent with our annual national accounts Blue Book 2017 publication, to be published on 31 October 2017.
UK GDP grew by 0.3% in Q2
UK gross domestic product (GDP) in volume terms was estimated to have increased by 0.3% between Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) and Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2017, unrevised from the second estimate of GDP. Services provided the only positive contribution to growth in Quarter 2 2017, with the output measure of GDP unrevised at 0.3%. Despite some small downward revisions to quarter-on-quarter growth in 2016, between 2015 and 2016, UK GDP grew by 1.8%, unrevised from the previous estimate.
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