As well as offering up the most popular names, the rankings put together by the Office for National Statistics also reveal ...

For girls, the most popular name was Olivia, with 136 newborns given the name. It was closely followed by Amelia, with 116, ...

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 ...

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 population of England and Wales is estimated to have jumped by more than 700,000 in the year to June 2024, the second largest annual numerical increase in over 75 years, figures show.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

LONDON, March 21 (Reuters) - Britain's statistics office, already under fire for its unreliable labour market data, paused publication of industrial inflation figures on Friday, raising further ...

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.

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).