Feeling the winter chill | Features

Focus on the regions
This month’s regional focus once more zooms in on Wales, where activity levels are still red hot, and its neighbour the West Midlands, which is suffering an order-book ice age
	Activity level			Order books
	Sep	Oct	Nov	Sep	Oct	Nov
Scotland	61	47	43	52	57	46
Northern Ireland	50	57	33	29	31	33
North England	61	52	56	65	54	56
North-west England	60	46	37	45	39	28
Yorkshire & Humberside	56	57	46	47	48	46
Wales	58	75	73	39	63	69
East Midlands	53	52	59	58	45	42
West Midlands	50	48	25	26	25	20
East Anglia	46	47	50	43	45	58
South-east	53	51	48	42	37	35
South-west	42	61	58	48	61	55
*An index measure of 50 indicates no change, a measure greater than 50 an increase and a measure less than 50 a decrease