The fall was triggered by a 9.2% plunge in car production during the month, although this decline was blamed on one-off factors such as strikes at car suppliers.
A Treasury spokesman blamed the rise in borrowing last month on a number of "one-off factors".
Speaking on RTL Radio, Moscovici blamed one-off factors such as slowing aircraft orders (the Paris Air Show, in June, typically delivers a boost to industry), saying: The productive forces are starting up again, production is recovering We knew the third quarter would mark a pause, it's not a surprise, it's not an indicator of decline, it's not a recession.
But she said this year's data may be skewed by one-off factors, such as lower prices on cell phone plans.
The deficit figures are harder to analyse because of the one-off factors (Royal Mail pension fund, the 'profits' on quantitative easing, etc), but they show that Britain faces a longer struggle to really get the debt 'under control'.
Chancellor George Osborne said the figures show "we are on the right track" but the bounce-back may have been driven by one-off factors such as the Olympics.
To be sure, there were some one-off factors at play.
By contrast, the Opposition claims this is an artificial strength due to one-off factors,.
Stripping out this and other one-off factors, the group's effective tax rate would have been 17%, Shire said.
"There will be quite a punchy number for growth for the quarter, but all from one-off factors," he said.
