The economy contracted slightly in October, with services showing no growth overall and production and construction both falling. Oil and gas extraction, pubs and restaurants and retail all had weak months, partially offset by growth in telecoms, logistics, and legal firms.
The numbers on today's GDP are disappointing, but it's not possible to turn around more than a decade of poor economic growth and stagnant living standards in just a few months.
Growth is the number one mission of this Government - economic growth that results in families feeling better off with more money in their pockets - and we're driving that economic growth and we hope that those numbers will start to improve because of the policies that we're pursuing in the months ahead.
Growth is expected to remain sluggish over the winter months, before the budgetary boost to public spending shows up in the GDP figures.
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