New orders -- Output -- Structure of the industry -- Price indices -- Cost indices -- Investment -- Commercial floor space -- Government department's construction plan -- Local authority expenditure -- National Lottery funded projects -- Planning applications and decisions -- Trends in employment and the professions -- Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland -- Building materials -- International comparisons -- Key performance indicators and benchmarking -- Background notes

This report brings together 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. This is the fourth web based only edition and the tables produced by ONS are available in Excel, allowing independent analyses of the published information.