The Latest Breaking News from the Office for National Statistics

Bank of England expected to hit the pause button on interest rate cutes on Thursday

Chancellor says that change will not happen ‘overnight’ after latest disappointing economic figures

Every month, our friends at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) publish the latest annual inflation rate, which measures the change in the price of regularly purchased products compared with the same time the previous year. Today, that figure (or rather, July's figure) was 2.2 per cent, slightly up on June…

City analysts think that figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday will show that inflation has risen to 2.3 per cent

Pharmaceuticals giant has hit a £200bn stock market valuation, a decade after fighting off Pfizer’s takeover approach

A total of 443,995 shoplifting offences were logged in the year ending March, while 50,510 knife crime offences were recorded

The Office for National Statistics said gross domestic product, or the output for the economy, increased by 0.4 per cent in May

Britain’s GDP grew by 0.4 per cent in May, after no growth was recorded in April due to low consumer spending

Gross domestic product expanded by 0.7 percent in the first three months of this year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a statement, upgrading the prior estimate of 0.6-percent expansion and beating market expectations for no change.