The Latest Breaking News from Office for National Statistics

With the cost of living crisis seemingly becoming our new normal, Mirror writer Danielle Kate Wroe went to her local supermarket for six months in a row to monitor how prices changed

Routine asymptomatic testing across health and social care settings has come to an end this month and the official Covid survey has been axed.

'No fault' section 21 evictions soared from 792 to 1,942 between the last three months of 2021 and the same period last year, according to Office for National Statistics figures

Cases are at their highest level since the start of the year, according to last ever ONS survey

After UK narrowly misses recession IoD reports rise in business demand, confidence, hiring and investment in March

Average UK house prices fell 3.1% in year to March, while energy costs are now falling in the eurozone and US core PCE inflation has dropped

Around 3% of the population are estimated to have long Covid

1.3 million people are likely to have had symptoms for 12 months or more.

March 24 marked the publication of the final bulletin of the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) Coronavirus Infection Survey after nearly three years of tracking COVID infections in the UK. The first bulletin was published on May 14 2020 and we’ve seen new releases almost every week since.

An estimated 1.7 million people in the UK are likely to have had coronavirus in the week to 13 March

It is the last time that regular estimates of coronavirus are being published, as the long-running infection survey – dubbed the “envy of the world” for its success in tracking the virus – has been halted