A 0.4% growth in new work led to this, with repair and maintenance output increasing by 0.2%.

At the sector level, five out of the nine sectors grew in the second quarter; the main positive contribution to the increase was infrastructure new work, which grew by 1.9%.

Monthly construction output is estimated to have fallen by 0.1% in June 2026, which follows a decrease of 0.8% in May 2026, and a decrease of 0.1% in April 2026.

Total construction new orders fell by 11.8% to £1.2bn this period compared with the first quarter. This quarterly decrease came mainly from private commercial new work and public other new work.

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Commenting on the figures, Neil Leitch — managing director of development finance at Hampshire Trust Bank — said the construction industry now needed greater certainty, not more policymaking from the new government.

“Developers can usually work around delay,” said Neil.

“What they find much harder is planning around uncertainty.

“If you can't price the planning risk with any confidence, it's very difficult to justify tying capital up for two or three years.

“That's when perfectly viable schemes quietly fall away long before they ever show up in the housing statistics.”