UK construction output falls by 6.3% in May

Despite extra working day UK's construction output declined by 6.3% in May, showed the Office for National Statistics. Caused by Queen's Diamond Jubilee one public holiday was transferred from the end of May to June, though company's did not use this chance effectively. Fall of 7.4% in construction occurred also between March and May of compared with the same period in 2011. The major drag for such decline was drop of new public housing construction equal to 22.9%.