article_snippet: The BCC is also raising The BCC UK growth forecasts from 2.6 per cent to 2.7 per cent for this year and from 2.4 per cent to 2.6 per cent in 2016.
article_snippet: That follows expansion of 2.6 per cent last year – when UK UK was the fastest growing economy in the G7 group of leading nations.
article_snippet: Growth is expected to pick up to 0.7 per cent in the first three months of this year following a 0.5 per cent rise in output in the final quarter of last year.
article_snippet: John Longworth, director general of The BCC, said: ‘
article_snippet: Businesses up and down the country are doing well despite international and domestic uncertainty.
article_snippet: UK is still a long way from achieving the great, sustainable, long-term growth we want to see.
article_snippet: A Treasury spokesman said: ‘The latest economic forecasts from The BCC are yet further proof that our long-term economic plan is working, with the strongest growth of any major advanced economy last year and showing upgrades to UK growth forecasts for 2015 and 2016.
article_snippet: But The BCC are right to say the job is not yet done so we must keep working through the plan that is delivering economic security in an uncertain world economy.