UK Manufacturing

Production for domestic and overseas markets falls -27.2% and -30.8% respectively.

Output falls for both domestic and overseas markets, declining -28.8% and -33.6% respectively.

Weakest January since 2009 as UK car manufacturing output declines -27.3% to 86,052 units – the 17th consecutive monthly decline.
Better news for alternatively fuelled vehicles with 21,792 cars made, up 18.9%.
Having lost car production worth £11.3bn to pandemic, sector urges Chancellor to introduce measures to enhance auto manufacturing competitiveness.

UK engine manufacturing down -27.0% in 2020 to just over 1.8 million units.

British commercial vehicle production falls -15.5% in 2020 to just 66,116 units, the lowest annual output since 1933.

UK car manufacturing output falls -29.3% in 2020 to 920,928 units, the lowest total since 1984.
Production for UK and overseas markets declines -30.4% and -29.1% but more than eight in 10 cars still head abroad.
Latest independent outlook forecasts car output to reach one million units in 2021, but much depends on Covid recovery, market confidence and new cross-channel rules.

189,883 UK engines built in November as output declines by -8.2%.

Overall decrease driven by -8.8% exports decline, while production for UK rises 10.1% as sector works to meet ecommerce-driven demand.

UK car manufacturing falls -1.4% in November with 106,243 vehicles leaving production lines.
Output for domestic market declines -10.4% with exports flat, up just 0.3% to 90,597 units.
Year-to-date production now down -31.0% with 380,809 fewer cars manufactured in 2020.
Industry calls on Brexit negotiators to ‘seal the deal’ before Christmas to avoid irrevocable damage of tariffs to critical automotive sector and jobs.

197,374 UK engines built in October as output declines by -20.1% Production for domestic and overseas markets falls -25.2% and -16.4% respectively. Year-to-date output remains down -30.1% as sector faces triple whammy of coronavirus, Brexit and 2030 end of sale…