New orders -- Output -- Structure of the industry -- Price indices -- Cost indices -- Investment -- Commercial floor space -- Government department's construction plans -- Local authority expenditure -- National Lottery funded construction projects -- Planning applications and decisions -- Trends in employment and the profession -- Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland -- Building materials -- International comparison -- DTI Construction Innovation and Research Programme -- Key performance indicators and benchmarking

This report brings together under one cover a wide range of statistics that are currently available on the construction industry from a variety of sources. It gives a broad perspective of statistical trends in the construction industry in Great Britain through the last decade together with some international comparisons and features on leading initiatives that may influence the future. Most of the tables are available in spreadsheet form, allowing independent analyses of the published information.