Economic Buzz: UK industrial production down 0.3% in August

According to the data released by the Office for National Statistics, UK's industrial production output decreased 0.3% during the three months to August 2025, compared with the three months to May 2025.

The largest negative contributor to the three-monthly fall in August 2025 came from electricity and gas (down 2.6%); this was partially offset by increases in water supply and sewerage (up 1.0%) and mining and quarrying (up 0.2%), while manufacturing remained flat (0.0%).

The decline in electricity and gas during the three months to August 2025 came from manufacture of gas (down 15.3%); this was partly because of strong growth in March 2025.

Monthly production output increased 0.4% in August 2025; this follows a decline in July 2025 (down 0.4%) and a rise in June 2025 (up 0.9%).

The rise in monthly production output in August 2025 resulted from increases in manufacturing (up 0.7%), electricity and gas (up 0.4%) and water supply and sewerage (up 0.3%); this was partially offset by a fall in mining and quarrying (down 2.3%).

8 of the 13 manufacturing subsectors saw a monthly increase in August 2025, with the largest positive contribution coming from basic pharmaceutical products (up 3.0%).

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