Agents' summary of business conditions - May 2018

This publication generally covers intelligence gathered from business contacts between late February and mid-April 2018. It generally makes comparisons with activity and prices over the past three months on a year earlier.

• Consumer spending growth slowed markedly, in part due to adverse weather.
• Recruitment difficulties became more broad-based; total labour cost growth rose.

Agents' summary of business conditions - May 2018

• Agents' scores (xlsx)
• Definitions for the Agents’ scores
• Response to consultation on changes to Agents' scores