Orders for public non-housing work contracted by 6% in 2010, after capital investment made as part of the government’s fiscal stimulus programme drove two years of double-digit output growth in 2008 and 2009.

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A nmodest fall of 6% during the year as a whole, however, nconceals the relative weakness of the second half of the nyear. Orders climbed by 9% in the first six months of the nyear but contracted by 19% in the second half, due to the nweakness of Q3. Orders in 2010 Q4 rose by 1% year-on-nyear and by 39% quarter-on-quarter