{"id":697462,"date":"2026-01-15T10:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/697462\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:47:13","slug":"growth-returns-in-pre-budget-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/697462\/","title":{"rendered":"Growth Returns in Pre-Budget Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\"><strong>Responding to the latest GDP data, published by the\u00a0Office for National Statistics this morning, Stuart Morrison, Research Manager at the British Chambers of Commerce,\u00a0said:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u201cBetter than expected\u00a0GDP\u00a0data\u00a0suggests the impact of\u00a0pre-Budget\u00a0jitters\u00a0among businesses may have been less than predicted.\u00a0Firms will welcome confirmation that\u00a0the economy bounced back to growth\u00a0of\u00a00.3%\u00a0in\u00a0November itself,\u00a0with\u00a0the more\u00a0reliable three-month average showing\u00a0more\u00a0modest\u00a0growth of 0.1%.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u201cThe reality of the Chancellor\u2019s statement, when it came,\u00a0was\u00a0no\u00a0significant\u00a0new taxes\u00a0for firms,\u00a0but a\u00a0lack of game changing\u00a0measures to\u00a0properly\u00a0kickstart the economy.\u00a0Firms are telling us\u00a0they\u2019re\u00a0still cautious about investing and\u00a0recruiting,\u00a0meaning growth will stay limited for the foreseeable.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u201cOur\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/response.gv-c.com\/Mail\/Click\/224?a=D75ED785BF560ADC7B1136ADF54F457C&amp;r=D01350FB23E29C65707B1E22539697CF&amp;v=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest economic forecast<\/a>\u00a0suggests\u00a0a challenging year ahead for businesses, with\u00a0a\u00a0projected\u00a0expansion in\u00a0GDP\u00a0of just\u00a01.2%. Businesses are ambitious to drive forward\u00a0better growth, but they need help.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u201c2026\u00a0must be a\u00a0year of delivery\u00a0on growth, with government and business working in partnership. That means action from policymakers on igniting investment, powering\u00a0productivity\u00a0and transforming trade.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Responding to the latest GDP data, published by the\u00a0Office for National Statistics this morning, Stuart Morrison, Research Manager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-697462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115898721541243063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}