The Latest Breaking News from Office for National Statistics

In December 2022 the number of excess deaths was 5,900, which is 13.5 per cent above the five-year average

Conversations about the weather are rarely actually about the weather. As the social anthropologist Kate Fox writes in her brilliant and often snort-inducing book, Watching the English, weather chat is in fact “a form of code, evolved to help us overcome our natural reserve and actually talk to each other.”…

Women are also more concerned than men about global warming

Retail bosses under pressure as food inflation proves more ‘sticky’ than expected

THE UK economy marginally grew over the first quarter of the year, according to official data, despite an unexpected slump in March.

But there was 0.1% growth in first quarter overall thanks to a stronger January, ONS says

Bad weather and strikes blamed for forcing down high street sales

Tens of thousands more Brits died than usual from May to December 2022, excluding Covid as a cause of death, raising serious questions as to why so many died

The 2020 figure was down 61.0% from 2019

The 2020 figure was down 61.0% from 219,850 in 2019, which is the largest annual decrease ever recorded.

Office for National Statistics figures just out show 4.9 million were still living at home in 2021, up from 4.2 million in 2011, meaning number has risen 14.7%