The number of people in the UK employed in construction fell by 5.3% in the second quarter of 2020 compared to the year before – a decline of 124,000 people.
Figures from the Office of National Statistics showed that there were 2.24m people employed in the sector in the April-June quarter this year.
That was 83,000 fewer than in the previous quarter (a decline of 3.6%), and 124,000 fewer than in April to June 2019 (a decline of 5.3%).
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