Year-on-year UK aggregates sales volumes increased by 2% last year, but the outlook for 2019 is likely to be flat.
The prediction was made by Jerry McLaughlin, executive director of economic and public affairs at the Mineral Products Association, to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Mining and Quarrying in the House of Commons earlier this month.
Giving an update to MPs about the effects of the current economic situation on the sector, McLaughlin said that the housing market had been going well,