Retail sales volumes (quantity bought) are estimated to have fallen by 2.7% in May 2025, following a rise of 1.3% in April 2025 (revised up from a rise of 1.2% in our last bulletin). Food store sales ...

1. Main points. More than a quarter (28%) of working adults in Great Britain hybrid worked between January and March 2025; the proportion of hybrid workers has gradually risen since March 2022, but ...

1. Main points . Around one in five deaths in 2023 were considered preventable or treatable in England (21.6%) and in Wales (22.7%); this is a similar proportion of avoidable deaths to the previous ...

1. Main points. Total Revolut debit card spending decreased by 2% in the week to 23 March 2025 compared with the previous week, with notable spending decreases in Services (7%) and Entertainment (3%); ...

Source: Census 2021 from the Office for National Statistics. Notes. To calculate the proportions in this table we have used the number of usual residents aged 16 years or over who stated that they had ...

Source: Labour Force Survey from the Office for National Statistics . Notes. Excludes households for which response has been imputed. The total response rate is the aggregate response rate for the ...

Notes: Raster data are from UKCEH’s Great Britain land cover maps for 1990 and 2021. Land cover maps raster data for Great Britain from 1990 are from Rowland, C, Marston, C, Morton, R, and O'Neil, A ...

Care workers were the most commonly advertised occupation in the UK in April to June 2024. After peaking in December 2021, UK job advert volumes have been gradually declining, and are now similar to ...

Fraud offences reported to the police are recorded and collected by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) from Action Fraud and two industry bodies, Cifas and UK Finance (See Section 9, ...

4. Similarities and differences in cancer waiting times standards. To understand the comparability of UK cancer waiting times standards and statistics, we conducted a collaborative review with NHS ...

2. Why NHS planned care waiting times are measured. All UK countries collect data on waiting times for planned care to assess performance against standards, as set out in the NHS constitution for ...

2. Overview. This article provides an update on our research on the development of income statistics for small areas. It forms part of our wider research towards a future population and migration ...