Hurrah ! Up by "10%" Year on Year ! [but Please Don't Look at the Small Print Though, Please Don't]

The number of new starts of public housing construction is up by 9.8 per cent year on year, according to statistics from the Office of National Statistics published on Friday.

Wow!  Impressive or what ...

The figure for building starts in quarter two 2012 was 1,018 and for the same quarter in 2013 the number was 1,118.

Output in the Construction Industry, June and Q2 2013