Provides early experimental ‘real‑time’ indicators using rapid‑response surveys and novel data sources to track UK economic activity and social change, offering high‑frequency snapshots for policymakers on trends in spending, mobility and labour market signals.
Northern Ireland results from the UK Innovation Survey 2025 present firm-level innovation activity and investment across 2022–24, providing regional evidence on R&D, new products, processes and collaboration.
Survey
Time series files for the April–June 2026 balance of payments release, providing historical quarterly data on the current account, capital transfers, financial flows and levels of UK external assets and liabilities.
Details Ministry of Defence spending with industry and commerce in 2026, reporting procurement, contracts and trade relationships to show how MOD expenditure is distributed across suppliers and sectors.
HM Land Registry published the August 2026 Price Paid Data release, updating monthly property transaction records (including SPPD/APPD) with CSV and TXT downloads available for analysis.
Analysis of UK business population in 2026 by legal form, industry, region, turnover and employment size band, offering a breakdown of enterprise counts and employment across sectors and locations.
Regional GDP estimates from 1998 to 2024 for UK countries, regions and local areas, presented in current prices and chained volume measures, with a full industry breakdown of balanced regional GVA(B).
Presents evidence on how recent economic challenges and events are affecting UK firms’ finances, workforce, trade and resilience, using ongoing business surveys to identify impacts on performance and operational pressures.
The Bank of England published its weekly report for 23 September 2026, setting out the latest data on the Bank’s assets and liabilities; the series is released every Thursday.
Breaks down UK business population by legal form, industry, region, turnover and employment size band, giving a detailed snapshot of enterprise activity and scale across sectors for 2026 analysis and policy planning.
Staff working paper examining how the composition of inflation influences monetary stabilisation, presenting ongoing research by Bank of England economists and inviting comment and debate on implications for policy.
Economic analysis
Annual statistics covering activity across seven gambling regimes administered by HM Revenue & Customs, providing breakdowns of betting and gaming tax regimes and related revenue and activity measures.
Sets out what an AI thematic account is, explains ONS’s approach to compiling one and describes how the account will help measure artificial intelligence’s economic impacts across the UK, including scope, data sources and analytic aims.
First estimate of Great Britain retail sales for August 2026, showing month‑on‑month and annual volumes and values, provided both seasonally adjusted and non‑seasonally adjusted to track consumer spending trends across the retail sector.
Experimental real‑time indicators published with rapid‑response surveys and novel data sources on economic activity and social change in the UK, providing timely measures and analysis for 17 September 2026.
Provisional monthly sea fisheries statistics for August 2026, reporting landings by UK and foreign vessels at UK ports plus UK vessel landings abroad, covering volumes and values by port and nationality of vessel.
The Market Participants Survey reports expectations on UK monetary policy from professionals active in UK rates markets, summarising their views on future Bank Rate and policy direction ahead of upcoming MPC decisions.
Survey
Latest consolidated update of the UK’s trade and investment factsheets, offering the most up-to-date partner-level snapshots of trade flows and investment positions with overseas trading partners.
Monthly tables and commentary for August 2026 report company insolvency numbers, rates and sector breakdowns across England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, covering formal insolvency procedures.
Presents new quarterly headline national well‑being measures to complement GDP, offering insights into quality of life and progress across the UK and informing broader measures of economic and social policy success.
Annual statistics measuring Total Income from Farming in England, offering an overall indicator of the agricultural sector’s financial performance for the most recent year.
Assesses methods and impacts of introducing a component approach to UK labour productivity measurement, covering methodological choices and how estimates would change for 1997–2024.
Evidence review
First estimate of Great Britain retail sales for August 2026, reporting volume and value measures both seasonally adjusted and non-seasonally adjusted — provided as the time series dataset underpinning the monthly release.
Northern Ireland milk price and production statistics for July 2026 show average producer prices for raw milk sold off‑farm and volumes collected from farms, with series back to 2000 for trend analysis.
August 2026 statistics on individual insolvencies set out numbers and rates of bankruptcies, debt relief orders and IVAs for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, with quarterly Scotland data and Breathing Space figures for England and Wales.
A Bank of England staff working paper analyses dealer-specific pricing in synthetic dollar funding, documenting variation in the prices charged by different dealers for dollar funding via synthetic instruments and exploring implications for funding costs and market functioning.
Economic analysis
Quarterly UK regional trade in goods accompanying tables for April–June 2026, giving aggregated ITL1 trade values and business counts, with splits by EU/non-EU partners and further SITC section and country group breakdowns.
Provides mortgage statistics for the UK up to 2025, including numbers of mortgage sales and related indicators broken down by local authority from 2006–2025, supporting analysis of housing market activity and regional change.
Quarterly release breaking down UK overseas trade in goods by nine English regions, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for April–June 2026, providing regional exports, imports and net trade details.
Snapshot factsheets setting out the UK’s trade and investment positions with individual partners whose names begin with G, H or I, summarising trade flows and investment indicators for each listed partner.