UK card spending recovers to 100% of pre-pandemic level
5:04 am Thursday, October 07th, 2021
LONDON (Reuters) – Spending on payment cards in Britain last week rose to 100% of its pre-pandemic level of February 2020, up from 95% a week earlier, data showed on Thursday.
Separate figures from the Office for National Statistics showed output-per-hour worked, a measure of productivity in the economy, inched up by 0.1% in the second quarter, leaving it 1.7% above its average level in 2019.
Economists say productivity data are likely to be distorted by the effects of the pandemic.
(Reporting by Andy Bruce; Editing by William Schomberg)
