Jeremy Hunt said he was 'heartened' after regular pay rose by an annual 1.4 per cent against the headline CPI rate in...
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GDP rose by 0.3 per cent in November, better than the 0.2 per cent analysts expected and largely offsetting a 0.3 per...
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Threadneedle Street kept the base rate on hold at 5.25 per cent, a 15-year high.
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Threadneedle Street is widely expected to keep the base rate on hold at 5.25 per cent when the announcement comes at ...
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Vacancies have fallen but remain higher than pre-pandemic levels and rates of unemployment are largely unchanged, acc...
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The shocking scale of the issue has been revealed in new data - with women and the younger generation bearing the brunt.
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Giving evidence at the official inquiry, Boris Johnson disputed a suggestion from counsel that the UK's toll had been...
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The Home Secretary outlined a five-point package in the Commons that included hiking the minimum salary required for ...
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Regular pay was up 7.7 per cent in the three months to September, slightly lower than the record high of 7.9 per cent...
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A major survey of Brits found women spent three hours and 37 minutes daily on unpaid work activities around the house...
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Analysis of official figures underlines the lasting impact of the pandemic on the welfare system.
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The mooted hike for April is the consequence of the 'triple lock' mechanism - which means payments go to match the hi...
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The respected IFS think-tank found the government will be raking in £114bn extra by next year compared to the tax bur...
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Some 13,924 people in England and Wales had reached age 100 by the time of the 2021 census, a staggering increase fro...
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Economists had forecast a 0.2% decline for the month. It came after a 0.5% monthly increase in June.
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The state pension is set for the big boost - worth around £18 a week for many OAPs - after strong wage figures for th...
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Official figures previously showed that UK plc was 1.2 per cent smaller by the end of 2021 than immediately before th...
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Regular pay was up by 7.8 per cent annually in the quarter to June, the fastest pace since comparable figures began i...
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Only households with incomes in the top 10 per cent met the threshold for being able to afford a £275,000 property la...
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More than two out of five value range products have got more expensive over the past two months - we reveal the worst...
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Retail sales clawed back ground last month with volumes - how much people buy - expanding by 0.5 per cent after a gri...
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Potatoes, pasta and sugar are among some of the staple food products where inflation rates were still increasing in A...
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The headline CPI dropped to an annual rate of 8.7 per cent in April, from 10.1 per cent the previous month. It is the...
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The figure was the second highest on record for March and £16.3billion above the same period last year, with Jeremy H...
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UK inflation fell to 10.1% on the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) but it means the cost of living crisis is refusing to g...
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The latest facts and figures relating to inflation have been released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS)
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Volumes were up 1.2 per cent in February, with discounting stores also seeing strong trade. The figure for January wa...
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The £16.7billion borrowed was more than double February last year, and the highest for the month since comparable fig...
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The huge quarter of a million fall compared to three years ago has been identified in new analysis by the Office for ...
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Just 59 per cent of the half-a-million strong increase in those classed as economically inactive can be explained by ...
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With house prices now falling month-on-month in the UK, we take a look at the parts of the country seeing the deepest...
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Properties in England and Wales have seen the average UK house price rise at a rate of 10.7% in the 12 months leading...
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A fifth of adults say they have been serving smaller portions due to the soaring cost of living, while nearly a quart...
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UK plc grew by 0.5 per cent in a bounceback after a fall in activity the previous month - which included a bank holid...
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People struggling to pay their energy bills are far more likely to have depression, a report by the Office for Nation...
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Official figures show average earnings are down 3.8% as UK heads for what is feared to be the longest recession in a ...
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The Office for National Statistics’s Covid infection survey shows people in the UK had a between one in 29 and one in...
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The latest inflation figures published by the Office for National Statistics show food and non-alcoholic beverages ar...
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The survey carried out by the Office for National Statistics shows how prevalent the coronavirus is in each area in t...
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