There is a slight negative revision but it still marks an improvement to November, as the UK manufacturing recovery continues at end of 2025. Of note, both output and new orders nudged higher in helping to see the headline reading post a 15-month high. So, that’s a positive signal at least. However, there was a mild increase in price pressures as input
\ncost inflation accelerated and output charges rose after
\ndeclining in November. S&P Global notes that:<\/p>\n
\u201cFurther signs of growth emanated from the UK
\nmanufacturing sector before the turn of the year. Output
\nrose for the third successive month and new order
\nintakes improved, albeit slightly, for the first time since
\nSeptember 2024. The domestic market remained a
\npositive spur to growth while new export business, despite
\nhaving now fallen for almost four consecutive years, took
\na sizeable stride towards stabilising.\n<\/p>\n
“UK manufacturers benefited from several reduced
\nheadwinds towards the end of the year, as the negative
\nimpacts of the uncertainty surrounding the Autumn
\nBudget, tariffs and the JLR cyber-attack all moderated.\n<\/p>\n
“The start of 2026 will show if growth can be sustained
\nafter these temporary boosts subside. The base of the
\nexpansion needs to shift more towards rising demand
\nand away from inventory building and backlog clearance.
\nDecember\u2019s interest rate cut will hopefully play some part
\nin assisting this transition, encouraging manufacturers
\nand their customers to increase spending and investment.
\nManufacturers remain uncertain on this score, with
\nbusiness optimism falling for the first time in three
\nmonths in December.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a slight negative revision but it still marks an improvement to November, as the UK manufacturing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-348223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}