UK's poor productivity figures show challenge for government

Only Japan in the G7 performed worse than the UK last year in terms of output per hour worked

Britain's productivity gap with other G7 nations has widened to its largest since estimates began in 1991, according to official figures.

Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that the output per hour from UK workers in 2014 fell to 20 percentage points below the average of other leading industrialised nations.

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