• Household spending on communications in the United Kingdom almost trebled in volume terms between 1991 and 2003. (Table 6.1)
• Between 1996 and 2003 the volume of UK total domestic expenditure on goods grew at twice the rate of expenditure on services, at 4.6 and 2.1 per cent per year respectively. (Figure 6.2)
• In 2003, 91 per cent of men and 90 per cent of women in Great Britain held at least one plastic card; this compares with 80 and 73 per cent respectively in 1993. (Table 6.9)
• UK consumer credit has continued to rise and in 2004 was over two and half times greater than in 1993, after taking account of inflation. (Figure 6.11)
• Of all the EU-15 countries, in June 2004 a UK resident would have found only Denmark, Ireland, Finland and Sweden more expensive than the United Kingdom. (Page 94)
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