This rise in bad debt, alongside the recent slowdown in consumer credit, suggests that households are starting to feel the pressure of their rapid build-up of debt in recent years.

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Criticisms have been raised, but we have looked at it ourselves, and we believe the ONS figures do a good job of measuring online sales.

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Overall, today's data lend tentative support to our view that the consumer spending slowdown has further to run.

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