The State Pension was first introduced on 1 January 1909. The foundation of a universal contribution-related basic State Pension was laid in the 1940s. There are two main types of State Pension: contributory and non-contributory. Contributory State Pension consists of any combination of a Basic Pension (BP), Additional Pension (AP) or Graduated Retirement Benefit (GRB). Non-contributory pension consists of a...

Numbers and rates of people claiming Employment Support Allowance. Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) replaced Incapacity Benefit and Income Support paid on the grounds of incapacity for new claims from 27th October 2008.

Pension Credit was introduced in October 2003. It is a non-contributory, income-related benefit. Its purposes are: To lift the poorest pensioners out of poverty by providing a contribution to a minimum guaranteed income for those aged 60 and over living in Great Britain. To reward those aged 65 and...

This dataset is for 2018/19 only. See also: Data for 2017/18 Data for 2016/17 and earlier Payments over £250 made by the London Fire Brigade* as part of the government and Mayor of London's transparency agenda. As of November 2012 the threshold for expenditure changed from £500 to...

The London IO tables provide an overview of activity across sectors and key aggregates (production, consumption and expenditure) as well as the interlinkages between sectors and London’s trade (with the rest of the UK, the EU and the rest of the world).  The IO tables are product x product rather than industry x industry. The data is for the product definition of...

The London Plan is the the overall strategic plan for London, setting out an integrated economic, environmental, transport and social framework for the development of London over the next 20–25 years. The Town Centres are listed in Annex 2 of the 2016 London Plan Please contact the relevant Local Authority if you require the definitive boundary for any of the...

Datastore catalogue files showing every dataset and resource entry on the London datastore. Files includes all metadata. File represents a live snapshot of content and is continually updated.

This page contains the spatial boundaries from the Mayor's Community Infrastructure Levy 2019 (known as MCIL 2), which replaces MCIL 1 on 1st April 2019. The following can be downloaded:: Image files of Central London and Isle of Dogs charging areas and the MCIL 2 charging bands MCIL 2 Central London charging area shape file for use in...

Areal rainfall is calculated at a daily timestep for 5 areal units which cover London using the Soil Moisture Model developed and run by the Environment Agency. For each areal unit, the areal rainfall and soil moisture deficits (SMDs) are calculated. Areal rainfall – This is calculated using rainfall data collected at one or more rain...

Number of births for mid-year to mid-year periods 1991/1992 to 2016/2017. The data is available at the following geographies: London Borough 2011 Ward 2018 Ward Middle Layer Super Output Area (MSOA) Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) LSOA figures are produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) while other geographies have been aggregated using these...