The Latest Breaking News from Office for National Statistics

Rising rental prices in London continue to break all records as house price growth falls, data shows

Property values increased by 0.6% annually in July 2023, compared with a 13.8% annual rise in July 2022.

Odds of an increase in UK interest rates on Thursday fall below 50%, after inflation rate dropped unexpectedly in August to an 18-month low

Drop in cost of food and accommodation offset higher petrol prices

A ‘very small proportion’ of non-UK-born residents reported not speaking English at all.

There were 13,924 people aged 100 or older in 2021, the Office for National Statistics said.

Three years after unprecedented inquest ruling, absence of other cases has left a gap for pollution sceptics to exploit

The age that people retire to take their pensions is ‘a possible explanation’ for the trend.

Fast-rising wages have been a major subject of concern for the Bank of England, which fears the public’s pay is rising too fast to bring inflation back down to the 2% target

To counteract rising inflation, the Bank of England had increased interest rates over the past year until September and there will be a review this Thursday

If the UK economy soon slips into recession, we will likely gesture vaguely at summer – such as it was – for when the contraction began. GDP shrank by 0.5 per cent in July, the sharpest decline since December, with services, production and construction all shrinking.