THE UK’s unemployment rate has remained at a four-year-high as job vacancies declined again. The latest figures from the ...

The latest employment figures show just how badly the labour market has fared during Labour’s first year in power, with young workers bearing the brunt.

British house prices rose by 10.3% in November compared with the same month in 2021, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Wednesday, slowing from October's revised 12.4% rise.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK government’s statistics authority, charged with “collecting, analysing and disseminating statistics about the UK’s economy, society and ...

The many failures now visible in economic statistics were “the almost inevitable consequence of the choices made (and not made) at the top of the ONS”, the review found.

The Office for National Statistics said the value of goods exported to America tumbled by £2 billion in April – the fastest pace since records began. Holly Williams Thursday 12 June 2025 11:22 BST ...

A probe into the culture, structure, and leadership of the Office for National Statistics has been launched by the government amid concerns over the quality of its data. The review, led by Robert ...

Just as the pandemic raised demand for fast, reliable statistics, it made them harder to collect. Handily, number-crunchers at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) rose to the challenge.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published a review of data-linking practices across government, and elsewhere, in order to make data more useful for government decision-making.

Statistics on annual conceptions released by the Office for National Statistics on July 9 indicate that 29.7 percent of pregnancies were ended by an abortion in 2022, up from 26.5 percent the year ...

We wish to clarify some points relating to the assessment by the UK government’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) of UK business spending on research and development (see Nature 612, 8; 2022).