Lost Working Days: Weather
(asked on 11th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to (a) businesses in Coventry and (b) the UK economy of work absences as a result of the summer 2018 heatwave.
This question was answered on 16th October 2018
No such estimate has been made.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the UK economy grew by 0.4% in Q2 2018, and 0.7% in the three months to August. This was the highest three-month GDP growth rate since February 2017.