"Figure 5: Nearly half (46%) of trading businesses with 10 or more employees reported energy prices as the main reason for considering raising prices in December 2022","" "Price expectations, businesses currently trading and are considering raising prices, broken down by response option, weighted by count, UK, 1 to 31 December 2022","" "","" "Notes","1. For presentational purposes response options have been removed. 2. Bars may not sum to 100% because of rounding. 3. Caution should be taken when interpreting expectations questions as the employees responding on behalf of businesses may not have full oversight of all of their business’s future expectations." "Unit","%" "","" "","All businesses","All sized businesses excluding 0-9 employees" "Energy Prices","37.6","45.7" "Raw material prices","26.8","33.8" "Labour costs","21.4","33" "Finance Costs","13.5","14.9" "Other","4.5","3.7" "Not sure","6","6.8" "Business is not considering raising prices","40.1","31.7"