The Latest Breaking News from the Office for National Statistics

Nisreen Alwan, professor of public health at the University of Southampton and Daniel Ayoubkhani, principal statistician at the Office for National Statistics and the University of Leicester explain how the latest statistics on the Covid pandemic and jobs suggest long Covid could be causing high levels of economic inactivity.

SCOTLAND is the zero-hours contracts capital of the UK, as research from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed a record high rate.

Sky-high inflation eroded the spending power of millions of families across Britain as the cost-of-living crisis hit hard at the start of the year, official figures revealed on Tuesday.

The UK economy cannot get out of first gear. Data released by the Office for National Statistics shows growth was a negligible 0.1 per cent in the first quarter of the year, with output falling by 0.3 per cent in March alone.