Adult smoking habits in the UK: 2025
Cigarette smoking habits in UK adults for 2025 are reported, covering smoking prevalence, differences between population groups, trends over time and e‑cigarette use across the adult population.
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Government Statistical Service Harmonisation: Assessing user needs for additional response options for the new ethnicity harmonisation standard
The Government Statistical Service is consulting on whether to add further tick‑box response options to the new ethnicity harmonisation standard and seeks evidence of user, community and respondent need to support any changes.
GDP deflators at market prices, and money GDP September 2026 (Quarterly National Accounts)
Publishes the latest GDP deflators and money GDP for September 2026 as part of the Quarterly National Accounts, providing a measure of general inflation in the domestic economy used to deflate nominal GDP.
Population estimates for the UK, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland: mid-2025
Mid‑2025 population estimates for the UK and its constituent countries, published by administrative area, single year of age and sex, providing national and subnational mid‑year counts for planning and demographic analysis.
Methodology
Describes Wave 198 of Pew’s American Trends Panel: a nationally representative survey conducted 24–30 August 2026, with 5,166 responses from 5,602 sampled panelists, and details on weighting and fieldwork.
Community and Engagement Survey: May to June 2026
Quarterly results on adult engagement with DCMS sectors and communities for May–June 2026, reporting how adults use culture, media and sport services and participate in local community activities across England (quarterly time series).
UK trade development plan update: Oct 2026
Progress update on developing UK trade and investment statistics, outlining recent improvements, ongoing projects and future plans to enhance trade data quality and coverage since the 2022 development plan.
GDP quarterly national accounts, UK: April to June 2026
Revises the UK gross domestic product estimate for April–June 2026 using additional data to give a more precise indication of quarterly economic growth than the first estimate.
Economic activity and social change in the UK, real-time indicators: 1 October 2026
Experimental real‑time indicators published by the ONS on 1 October 2026 provide early data and analysis on UK economic activity and social change, drawing on rapid response surveys, novel data sources and experimental methods.
Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) 2026
Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) 2026 provides chapters 1–7, annexes A–J and commodity balances in flat file format, offering comprehensive annual UK energy supply, consumption and sectoral data for 2026 analysis.
UK trade development plan update: October 2026
An October 2026 update on improvements made to UK trade statistics since the 2022 UK Trade Development Plan, and details of continuing and planned work to further develop trade and investment data.
Linking police and sexual violence support service victim data
Links victim records from two of the three rape crisis centres in the Synergy Essex Partnership with police data to examine overlaps and information sharing between services for sexual violence victims; scope and key findings are not given in the blurb.
Monthly Stillbirths (Northern Ireland): September 2026
Provides the monthly stillbirths bulletin for Northern Ireland for September 2026, reporting counts and trends in stillbirths for use in public health monitoring and planning.
DCMS Economic Estimates: Earnings 2025
Official DCMS statistics provide 2025 estimates of the contribution of DCMS sectors to the UK economy measured by employee earnings, used to assess sectoral economic impact.
DCMS Sectors Economic Estimates: Trade, 2022 and 2023
DCMS releases official estimates for 2022 and 2023 measuring the contribution of DCMS sectors to the UK economy via imports and exports of goods and services.
Quarterly Energy Prices: September 2026
Quarterly Energy Prices: September 2026 publishes the latest quarterly statistics on energy prices across fuels and sectors, providing updated trends for policymakers, industry and analysts on consumer and wholesale price movements.
Defra International indicator results – Statement of voluntary application of the Code of Practice for Statistics
Defra has issued a statement confirming the voluntary application of the Code of Practice for Statistics to its international indicator results, explaining governance and quality assurances for those statistics.
Funded occupational pension schemes in the UK: October 2025 to March 2026
Quarterly Financial Survey of Pension Schemes results for October 2025–March 2026 covering membership, income and expenditure, assets and liabilities of UK funded occupational pension schemes.
UK official holdings of international reserves: September 2026
The HM Treasury release details movements in the UK government’s official international reserves for September 2026, covering holdings of gold and other reserve assets and reporting month‑on‑month changes in totals.
Consultation on release times for market sensitive economic statistics
Seeks evidence on potential changes to release times for market‑sensitive ONS economic statistics, inviting views to inform a recommendation to the Office for Statistics Regulation on timing and market impact.
Local reference rents, listed by BRMA and property size (September 2026)
HMRC (research) provides local reference rent (LRR) levels for England, broken down by broad rental market area and number of rooms, with figures for September 2026 to guide housing benefit and rent benchmarking.
Adult social care client level data, England: quarterly update to March 2026
Quarterly update on adult social care client-level data for England (to March 2026) publishes official statistics in development, providing local-authority-level information on assessments, packages of long-term support and service use patterns.
How synthetic polling results change based on the AI model
Survey experiments using Opus 4.6 and GPT‑5.1 produced markedly different synthetic public‑opinion results, with neither model’s output matching actual human survey benchmarks, highlighting model-dependent distortions in AI polling.
Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: week ending 18 September 2026
Provisional weekly registration counts of deaths in England and Wales for the week ending 18 September 2026, published to monitor short-term mortality patterns.
Deaths registered in England and Wales: 2025
Presents registered deaths in England and Wales for 2025, detailing counts by leading cause, age, sex and selected underlying causes, and including data on death occurrences to support analysis of mortality patterns.
Old video of Israeli basketball player on plane shared with false claims it shows Flydubai attack aftermath
An old video of an Israeli basketball player on a plane circulating online is unrelated to the recent Flydubai incident; the footage predates the event and has been misattributed in social posts.
Measles: historic confirmed cases, notifications and deaths
Laboratory‑confirmed measles cases, notifications in England and deaths for England and Wales are compiled historically, providing time series on confirmed infections, notifications and mortality from measles over previous years.
Information Commission succeeds the ICO as UK's data protection regulator
The Information Commission replaces the ICO today, taking over its data‑protection functions and powers while modernising regulator governance and maintaining independent oversight of people’s personal data.
How well synthetic polls capture the diversity of public opinion
Synthetic poll respondents were likelier than humans to converge on a single answer or skip response options, indicating reduced diversity and response variability in AI‑generated survey data versus human respondents.
GDP quarterly national accounts, UK: April to June 2026 time series
Provides the time series datasets underpinning the UK quarterly GDP release for April–June 2026, including component series for output, expenditure and income used by analysts to examine short‑run economic performance.