Statistics from UK Government Dept & Agencies

Audit Commission

• Area Profiles  - Area Profiles provide a wide ranging picture of the quality of life and public services in a local area. They bring together data, information and assessments for every local authority area in England.

 

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Statistics website - includes:

• Productivity Measures - Economic productivity measures, including output per hour, output per job and output per worker for the whole economy and a range of industries; productivity in the public sector; and international comparisons of productivity across the G7 nations
• Construction statistics
• Digest of UK Energy statistics (DUKES)
• Regional economic performance indicators (REPI) - present statistical information, which illustrates the factors that contribute to regional competitiveness. Statistics are generally presented for English Regions and the devolved administrations of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
• Insolvency Service Official Statistics - Insolvency Service
• Regional competitiveness & state of the regions
• Small Business Survey Reports - statistics on small business
• Trade Union membership statistics - data from the Labour Force Survey' shows current patterns of union membership together with changes in trends over recent years.

 

Department for Education

• School and college achievement and attainment tables (formerly performance tables)
• Research & Statistics gateway - wide range of statistics covering education, training and life-long learning including
• Further education & skills statistics for England

For more detailed information on Education Statistics available on the web go to Sources of Education Statistics on the Internet  

 

Dept for Housing, Communities & Local Government

• Fire Statistics 
• Housing Statistics - includes English Housing Survey
• Local government finance statistics – England (compendium)
• Local authority housing data
• Planning Application Statistics
• State of the Cities Database - provides access to a broad range of statistical data and information at several geographic levels (e.g. Cities, City Regions, Town Centres, Local Authorities and Regions).

 

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 

• DEFRA Economics and Statistics
  • Agriculture in the United Kingdom  - links to full text of all Annual Reports since 1997
  • Environment statistics 

For more detailed information on Environmental Statistics available on the web go to Sources of Environmental Statistics on the web

Department of Health and Social Care 

• Research and Statistics
• Policy papers and consultations

DH archived statistics (prior to 1 April 2013) can be found on the National Archives

A range of health and care statistics are also produced by several other organisations:

• Health & Social Care Information Centre
• NHS England
• Public Health England
• Scottish government
• NHS Scotland
• Welsh government
• Northern Ireland
• Office for National Statistics
• UK Statistics Release Calendar
• Data.gov.uk
• Hospital episode statistics (HES)
• NHS Digital - Health and Personal Social Services Statistics (external link)
• Health Survey for England
• GP patient survey 2018
• NHS Surveys - information about patients' experience of primary care services

For more detailed information on Medical Statistics available on the web go to Sources of Medical Statistics on the Internet

Department of International Development 

• Research and Statistics on International Development

 

Department for Transport 

• Transport Statistics - includes:
  • Transport Statistics for Great Britain - compendium of transport statistics (annual) previous editions also available
  • Accident & casualties statistics
  • Aviation
  • Buses
  • Disabled parking badges
  • Driving tests and instructors
  • Energy & the environment
  • Freight
  • International comparisons
  • Journey times
  • Light rail and tram
  • Maritime and shipping
  • National Travel Survey
  • Public attitudes towards transport
  • Rail
  • Renewable Fuel
  • Road accidents and safety
  • Road congestion and travel times
  • Road freight: domestic and international
  • Road network size and condition
  • Road traffic
  • Search and rescue helicopter
  • Taxi and private hire vehicles
  • Transport energy and environment
  • Transport Statistics Great Britain
  • Vans
  • Vehicles
  • Vehicle speed compliance
  • Walking and cycling

 

Department for Work and Pensions

• Research and Statistics - arranged by theme:
  • Children, families and bereavement
  • Employment support schemes
  • Equality information
  • Family Resources Survey
  • Health, disability and care
  • Housing and heating
  • Income and living standards
  • Pensions and older people
  • Spending, fraud and error
  • Work and unemployment

 

Health & Safety Executive

• Health and Safety Statistics - includes: 
  • Statistics A - Z
  • Statistics by country / region - briefings which provide information on occupational injuries, ill-health, and enforcement action, for English regions, Scotland and Wales.
  • Statistics by industry
  • Historical picture statistics in Great Britain - trends in work-related ill health and workplace injury

 

HM Revenue & Customs

• Tax Statistics
  • Tax receipts and taxpayers
  • Tax reliefs and ready reckoners (inc. pensions, tax-free savings and investments)
  • Income tax and personal incomes
  • Personal Tax Credits
  • Benefits and Credits statistics (inc. Child Benefit statistics)
  • UK charity tax relief statistics
  • Business taxes statistics (inc. Corporate tax)
  • Personal taxes (inc. Capital gains tax)
  • Inheritance tax
  • Property and stamp duties
  • Personal Wealth
  • Trusts
  • Excise duties, VAT and other indirect tax statistics
• uktradeinfo: UK Trade Information on-line
  • Regional Trade Statistics
  • Overseas Trade Statistics
  • Intrastat
  • Commodity Data

 

Home Office

• Home Office Statistics - which includes: 
  • Crime statistics
  • Migration statistics
  • Policing statistics
  • Immigration and Asylum statistics
  • Alcohol and drug statistics
  • Animals in science statistics
  • Counter terrorism statistics
  • Fire statistics

 

Treasury 

• Budget Information - for most recent budget
• Pocket Databank: Economic Indicators
• Forecasts for the UK economy
• Gross Domestic Product deflators
• Public Sector Finances Bulletin

 

For more detailed information on Economic Statistics available on the web go to Sources of Economic, Trade and Financial Statistics on the Internet

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