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The construction PMI followed a better equivalent survey for the manufacturing sector, published on Wednesday.
A similar survey of the manufacturing sector published by Markit on Friday also showed slower growth.
A closely watched index of sentiment in the vast Chinese manufacturing sector, published by the British bank HSBC on Thursday, showed a reading of 51.7 points in March.
An updated report on the services sector, published on Tuesday underlined the blow to a sector that accounts for almost four-fifths of the economy's output.
At the same time, a monthly poll measuring sentiment in the manufacturing sector, published by Reuters, jumped 11 points to plus-7 in May — the highest reading since September 2011 and the first reading above zero in a year.
The equivalent survey for the manufacturing sector published on Tuesday showed workloads in Britain's factories are also rising above expectations, with the fastest growth in output in a generation.
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The Board will also be responsible for setting open data standards across the public sector, publishing further datasets on the basis of public demand, and – in conjunction with the Ministry of Justice – will further develop the Right to Data and advise on its implementation.
Taken with surveys from the smaller manufacturing and construction sectors published earlier this week, this pointed to a sharp slowdown in overall economic growth, said Markit's chief economist Chris Williamson.
The latest figures on producer prices outside the volatile food and energy sectors, published by the Labor Department on Tuesday, showed a surprising 0.5percentt spike, prompting a sell-off in both stocks and government bonds on inflation fears.
Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said services PMI, and equivalent surveys from the manufacturing and construction sectors published earlier in the week, suggested the economy was on track to grow by 0.5% in the fourth quarter, matching the rate in the third quarter.
The strong reading for the UK services sector follows similarly strong surveys of the manufacturing and construction sectors published earlier this week.
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