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UK gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have grown by 0.7% in Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2025, unrevised from the first estimate. Read more ➡️ ons.gov.uk/economy/grossd…

Real household disposable income per head is estimated to have fallen by 1.0% in Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2025, down from a 1.8% rise in Quarter 4 2024 (Oct to Dec) 2024. Read more ➡️ ons.gov.uk/economy/grossd…

The household saving ratio decreased this quarter by 1.1 percentage points to 10.9%, driven by a fall in non-pension savings contributions.

The underlying UK current account deficit narrowed by £0.1 billion to £18.6 billion (2.5% of GDP) in Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2025. Read more ➡️ ons.gov.uk/economy/nation…

Can we put a price on nature? 🌊 A new ESCoE discussion paper explores how we measure the value of nature, focusing on the services provided by freshwater systems like rivers, lakes & wetlands: tinyurl.com/3u79272u UCL UEA ONS Focus Università di Siena

What’s been going on at the Office for National Statistics (ONS)? An incisive analysis from the Abundance Agenda podcast (from 17:50 on) #statistics

Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England. If England built at French levels, it would have almost 3 million more homes. French homes are, on average, a fifth bigger that English homes.

One week to go until our 2025 Fiscal risks and sustainability report is published Our new report will have three chapters looking at: climate change🌍 public balance sheet ⚖️ pensions 💰 Follow us for highlights and charts #OBRfiscalrisks

Great to read that the ONS Focus Economic Microdata Transformation team have begun development work on the prototype recommended in ESCoE's recent LEED report: tinyurl.com/t5hx4372 ChristinaPalmou John Forth Alex Bryson

Looking at these types of charts (hairy charts, my fave) and it really hits home just how much of an impact the 2008 financial crisis (and the fumbled response to it ) had on the (UK) economy

By linking business surveys with PAYE tax data, ONS is creating richer, more powerful economic indicators. Christina Palmou explains how #data linkage is transforming analysis of the labour market 👇 blog.ons.gov.uk/2025/07/01/dat…

Yesterday, Head of @statsregulation Ed Humpherson was questioned about problems at the Office for National Statistics (ONS). He told the Committee that one of the organisation’s main weaknesses is that it tends to ‘downplay external concerns’.

New economic activity and social change data show in the week to 29 June 2025 overall UK retail footfall: · increased by 2% compared with the previous week · decreased by 1% when compared with the equivalent week of 2024 Read more ➡️ ons.gov.uk/economy/econom…

Both the System Price of electricity and the System Average Price of gas decreased in the week to 29 June 2025, compared to the previous week, by 37% and 14%, respectively.

In late June 2025, 37% of businesses with 10+ employees reported some form of concern about their supply chains over next 12 months (up 5 percentage points from late Mar) The most reported concern was international conflict at 19% (up 6 percentage points over the same period).

When asked in late June 2025, 14% of businesses reported they were planning to adopt some form of AI technology within the next 3 months This is: · up 2 percentage points from late Mar · the largest proportion reported since the question was introduced in late Sept 2023

I despair for the UK. No country has better fundamentals to profit from the current global mess, so why is Oxbridge not a rival to Silicon Valley? Every one of its problems—from Heathrow to housing, from small boats to the deficit, from the NHS to the explosion in welfare—is

Today we've published figures on life expectancy and years expected to live in ‘good’ health using national indices of deprivation to measure socioeconomic inequalities in England and Wales. Read the full article ➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

The second PACAC Committee oral evidence sessions on the work of the UK Statistics Authority UK Statistics Authority are on Tuesday 8 July 2025 #statistics committees.parliament.uk/event/24763/fo…

In 1937, London built 80,000 homes. Last year, it built less than half that. To find out why, I looked at two different planning applications for a four-storey block of flats from now and back then. 1937: 3 pages long. 2025: 1,250 pages long.