However the figure for the last three months of the year was left unchanged.
The improvements come from revisions to Q1 which was lifted from a 0.2% to a 0.1% contraction and an increase in Q3 growth from 0.9% to 1.0%.
Q4 results found that business services & finance industries output rose by 0.2% and construction output increased by 0.9%. For the year 2012 construction output fell by 8.2%.
The revisions come a week after the credit rating agency Moody’s f the UK economy over fears that growth would "remain sluggish over the next few years."
