根据今年的前三个月,U.K.的经济增长不明,表明恢复已经停滞不前,并根据金融时报。星期三,国家统计局reported that gross domestic product in the U.K. expanded by an unrevised 0.5% in the first quarter of 2011, which was only enough to reverse the 0.5% contraction in the last thee months of 2010. The data showed that a 0.6% drop in household spending held back the recovery to take off 0.4% from economic growth and leaving the size of the economy at the same size seen in September of last year.
与此同时,这是经济合作与发展组织再次削减预测,预测,预测该国的经济将在2011年增加1.4%和次年1.8%。本集团引用政府紧缩措施和必要的财政政策收紧增长预测,但保持了政府赤字减少计划的支持。预测低于预算责任办公室在2011年的1.7%的扩张官方期望和2012年增长2.5%。经合组织敦促英格兰银行尽管经济前景不确定,尽快开始增加利率。