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Building materials and components: monthly statistics

This collection brings together all documents relating to building materials and components monthly statistics.

The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) ‘Monthly statistics of building materials and components’ presents detailed information on selected building materials.

The publication contains monthly data on price indices, bricks and concrete blocks. It contains quarterly data on sand and gravel, slate, concrete roofing tiles, ready-mixed concrete and imports/exports of construction products. Cement data is updated on an annual basis.

Each edition of the publication consists of a commentary and data tables (in Excel and ODS formats).

Past editions of Building materials and components: monthly statistics are available on the National Archives website.

Supporting documents are available on this collection page, in line with the code of practice for official statistics, including a calendar of future publication dates.

Details of the revisions and error policy for this publication are available in DBT’s statistics error policy.

Details on how the statistics in this publication are obtained, processed and produced can be found in the ‘Building materials and components: methodology’ document available in the ‘Other documents’ section of this page.

Following a 2012 Office for National Statistics (ONS) Methodology Advisory Service (MAS) review, improvements were made to the publication. The reports are available in the ‘Other documents’ section of this page.

Contact: business.statistics@businessandtrade.gov.uk

2026 monthly bulletins

2025 monthly bulletins

2024 monthly bulletins

2023 monthly bulletins

Other documents