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Everything on this site is a figure a government department published, shown with the period it covers and a route back to the file it came from. You do not need to know which department publishes what. Ask a question, or begin with a subject.

Crime

Official statistics on crime in England and Wales: police-recorded offences, the Crime Survey, homicide, knife crime and local recorded-crime rates.

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Migration

Official statistics covering immigration, emigration, visas, asylum, small boat arrivals, detention, returns and related measures.

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Justice

Official statistics on the criminal justice system: courts, charge rates, sentencing, prisons, probation and policing.

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Population

Official Census and population statistics: usual residents, ethnic group and religion, by local authority and smaller areas, with change between censuses.

Work

Official labour market statistics: employment, unemployment, economic inactivity, long-term sickness, vacancies, pay and real wages.

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Tax

What Britain is taxed: receipts by tax, rates and thresholds, the value of frozen thresholds, and the tax burden measured against the economy.

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Public finances

Government borrowing, debt, debt interest and the balance between what the state raises and what it spends.

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Spending

Where public money goes: expenditure by function, in cash, in real terms, per resident and as a share of the economy.

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Benefits

Claimants and expenditure across the main working-age, disability and pensioner benefits.

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Housing

House prices, rents, affordability, housebuilding, social housing and homelessness.

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Health

NHS performance and population health: waiting lists, emergency care, life expectancy and avoidable mortality.

Education

Attainment, absence, exclusions, special educational needs, participation and the teaching workforce.

Energy

Household energy prices and bills, fuel poverty, and how Britain's electricity is generated.

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Transport

Rail performance, road safety, vehicle ownership, electric vehicle adoption and fuel prices.

Local government

Council finances and services: spending, council tax, reserves, debt and section 114 notices.

Economy

Inflation, output, productivity and the measures used to convert every other figure on this site into real terms.

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Your area

Type a postcode into the box above and it resolves to the local authority and police force that cover it, then to the recorded crime, population and census figures published for that area.

When Britain does not publish an answer

Some reasonable questions have no official answer. Rather than guess, those are recorded and explained.