The Latest Breaking News from the Office for National Statistics

As summer threatens to give way to autumn, the drum beat of tax rises is growing ever louder. Today, it was data from the Office for National Statistics showing that public sector net borrowing has surged to a worse-than-forecast £3.1billion in July, significantly higher than the year before.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said public sector net borrowing stood at £3.1bn last month, £1.8bn more than a year ago and the highest July borrowing since 2021

Experts warned the growth is unlikely to be sustained in the second half of the year

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

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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.

THE UK economy recorded no growth in April after wet weather dampened consumer spending, according to the Office for National Statistics, in a…