In the year to August 2012 the output price index for home sales of manufactured products rose 2.2 per cent. In the same period the total input price index rose by 1.4 per cent.
Production output decreased by 0.8 per cent in July 2012, compared with July 2011. Manufacturing output decreased by 0.5 per cent in July 2012, compared with July 2011.
Liverpool has the highest percentage of workless households in the UK with 31.6 per cent being workless.
Mergers and Acquisitions involving UK companies continues to remain low in the second quarter of 2012.
Latest provisional estimated net migration 216,000 for year to December 2011. Immigration at 566,000, emigration at 350,000.
Workless households down by 153,000 to 3.7 million in 2012. Here is the latest information on households and the adults and children living in them, by household economic activity status.