{"id":552279,"date":"2026-07-16T07:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/552279\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:35:08","slug":"uk-economy-grew-by-0-1-in-may-driven-by-services-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/552279\/","title":{"rendered":"UK economy grew by 0.1% in May, driven by services firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s economy grew by 0.1% in May, in line with the median forecast in a Reuters poll of economists, as the country&#8217;s services sector expanded, official data showed today.<\/p>\n<p>Industrial production and construction both contracted during the month, the Office for National Statistics said.<\/p>\n<p>In the three months to May, economic output grew by 0.7%, slowing slightly from an upwardly revised 0.8% in the three months to April.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The economy recorded robust growth in the three months to May, though the pace eased slightly as the latest two months showed a weaker picture,&#8221; Liz McKeown, the ONS&#8217; director of economic statistics, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Services drove growth across the three months with computer programming and advertising again leading the way, while the often-volatile pharmaceutical industry also performed well,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s economy grew by 0.1% in May, in line with the median forecast in a Reuters poll of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-552279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}