29th January 2026 by Daryl Rozario, Jubair Ahmed, Gordon Douglass and Sixia Zhang
UK inflation picks up in December The Office for National Statistics (ONS) published data on December’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation this month. This showed that CPI inflation rose by 3.4% in the 12 months to December 2025; up from 3.2% in November (Figure 1). This was higher than expected...
10th November 2025 by Matthew Tibbles
Introduction The Indices of Deprivation 2025 (IoD25) provides a suite of measures on relative levels of deprivation across 33,755 neighbourhoods, called Lower-Layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs), in England.[1] This latest release updates and replaces the Indices of Deprivation 2019 (IoD19). This note...
30th October 2025 by Daryl Rozario, Jubair Ahmed, Gordon Douglass, Ali Ögcem and Sixia Zhang
UK inflation remains steady in September The Office for National Statistics (ONS) published data on September’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation this month. This showed that CPI inflation remained unchanged at 3.8% in the 12 months to September 2025; it has remained at this level since July...
19th March 2025 by Paul Hodgson, City Data, GLA
Blog 2: Celebrating London’s data story Introduction Nearly two-thirds of London’s CO2 emissions come from buildings, with domestic buildings being a major contributor at 32%. Delivering retrofit to domestic buildings at scale and targeted to the most-effective types of building is therefore a key...
27th February 2025 by Guillaume Paugam
1 Introduction The link between long-term sickness and labour market participation has become a prominent issue among UK policymakers since economic inactivity due to ill-health rose following the pandemic.[1] The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data showed that, in the 12 months to...
28th November 2024 by Daryl Rozario, Gordon Douglass, Sixia Zhang
Bank of England cuts interest rates The Bank of England (BoE) cut interest rates again in November, with the Bank Base Rate being cut from 5.0% to 4.75% (Figure 1). This is the second cut in interest rates by the BoE this year. Figure 1: Alongside this decision the BoE published its November 2024...
9th July 2024 by Veronica Tuffrey, Senior Analyst, City Intelligence Unit
The GLA demography team just released a report that examines the demographic evidence around trends in the population of young children (age 0 to 10) in London. We wrote this report to examine the truth behind media reports of primary schools in Inner London needing to merge or close due to...
14th February 2024 by Daryl Rozario
Gender pay gap in London and the UK The headline gender pay gap[1] in London was 11.9% according to provisional 2023 data from the ONS.[2] Pay gaps across the UK have been steadily falling since 1997 but in London progress slowed in the early 2010s (see Figure 1) leaving the gap in London 4.2...
25th January 2024 by Daryl Rozario, Gordon Douglass and Sixia Zhang
UK inflation ticks up in December UK inflation surprisingly increased in December according to data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation ticked up to 4.0% in December 2023 from 3.9% in November (Figure 1). This was the first time the rate had...
22nd January 2024 by Adam Yousef
On 22 January 2024, the GLA’s City Intelligence Unit released the fourth version of its bi-annual State of London report – a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of London’s key economic and social outcomes. The report covers numerous datasets that update at different intervals, but most of the...
26th October 2023 by Daryl Rozario, Gordon Douglass, and Mike Hope
UK inflation fails to fall in September Office for National Statistics (ONS) data that was published this month showed inflation didn’t fall in September. Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation remained at 6.7%, unchanged from August (Figure 1). Most economists had expected a small drop in September’s...
27th July 2023 by Daryl Rozario, Gordon Douglass, James Watson, Jasmine Farqharson
Inflation eases, but households still under pressure For the first time in almost two years, June’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation release offered some good news in that the actual figure was below what forecasters expected. The cost of living crisis is far from over though, and price...
4th July 2023 by Daryl Rozario
On Monday the 26th of June, the City Intelligence Unit (CIU) published the third version of its bi-annual State of London report. This report represents arguably the most comprehensive and authoritative evidence base for the economic and social realities experienced by London as a whole and...
30th June 2023 by Daryl Rozario, Gordon Douglass, Mike Hope, and Jasmine Farquharson
Inflation remains stubbornly high in the UK Data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this month showed that annual Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation stood at 8.7% in May unchanged from April (Figure 1). This rate was unexpected by most economists with a poll by Reuters showing...
27th April 2023 by Daryl Rozario, Mike Hope, James Watson, Jasmine Farquharson
Inflation still in double digits as doubts arise about persistent price pressures The UK continues to face inflation above 10% according to the latest figures by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation slowed in March 2023 but still came in at 10.1% year on...
30th March 2023 by Daryl Rozario, Gordon Douglass, Mike Hope, and James Watson
Cost of living crisis not easing yet, despite Government measures Inflation rose unexpectedly in February, with signs that some price pressures may take longer to ease. Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation unexpectedly hit 10.4% year-on-year last month, up from 10.1% in January. The three main...
27th March 2023 by Rachel Leeser
Key points: The data collection used to create these poverty statistics was heavily affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, as in the previous year, but to a lesser extent. As a result, only a single recorded change in the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) published headline...
26th January 2023 by Daryl Rozario, Gordon Douglass, James Watson and Jasmine Farquharson
Inflation turning a corner, but households still face pinch points ahead Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation eased for a second consecutive month in December, according to the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) latest release. But at 10.5% year on year, headline CPI price growth remains near the...
22nd December 2022 by Daryl Rozario, Gordon Douglass, Mike Hope, James Watson, and Jasmine Farquharson
Inflation eases, but cost of living still bites Londoners hard The outlook for the cost of living may finally be stabilising, with tentative signs of a peak in inflation. But even as price rises decelerate, incomes are unlikely to catch up, leaving real living standards lower and consigning the...
24th November 2022 by Daryl Rozario, Gordon Douglass, James Watson, and Jasmine Farquharson
UK economy likely heading into a recession This month saw the outlook for the economy come into clearer focus. The Government announced the future of the Energy Price Guarantee (EPG) and the Bank of England and Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) released official forecasts just as the Office for...
30th September 2022 by Barry Fong
The City Intelligence Unit has published the headline findings from the Survey of Londoners 2021-22, a major social survey designed to assess the impact of COVID-19 and associated restrictions on key social outcomes for Londoners, not available from other data sources. It follows up on a similar...
25th August 2022 by Daryl Rozario, Gordon Douglass, Jasmine Farquharson, and Mike Hope
Inflation rises strongly again Annual UK Consumer Price Index inflation (CPI) rose to 10.1% in July, up 0.7 percentage points from the June rate of 9.4%, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This is the highest rate of inflation since 1982, according to ONS modelling. Rising food...
28th July 2022 by Daryl Rozario, Gordon Douglass, James Watson, Jasmine Farquharson
Rising inflation continues to drive global economic conditions The cost-of-living crisis continues to sharpen, with Office for National Statistics (ONS) data showing that consumer price index (CPI) inflation increased by 9.4% year-on-year in June, up from 9.1% a month earlier. The largest...
30th June 2022 by Daryl Rozario, Mike Hope, and Jasmine Farquharson
Interest rates rise as do fears of stagflation This month the Bank of England (BoE) has raised interest rates to 1.25% from 1%, to counter inflationary pressures. This is its fifth increase from successive meetings of the Monetary Policy Committee. While the latest Consumer Price Inflation (CPI)...
17th June 2022 by Ben Corr
On June 28th, ONS will publish the first results from the 2021 Census[1]. This blog offers an overview of what we expect to learn from the new data, as well as some of the challenges in interpreting the results. Summary The first release will contain only limited data about the size and age...