•The Index of Services increased by 3.1% in August 2014 compared with August 2013. All of the four main components of the services industries increased in the most recent month compared with the same month a year ago. •The largest contributions came from: business services & finance, which contributed 1.5 percentage points to total growth; and distribution, hotels & restaurants, which contributed 0.7 percentage points to total growth. •The latest Index of Services estimates show that output was flat between July 2014 and August 2014. •The figures within this release are estimates and are on a seasonally adjusted ... (full story)