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As well as offering up the most popular names, the rankings put together by the Office for National Statistics also reveal ...
Parents have turned their backs on the Prime Minister’s name after no newborns were called Keir last year. For the first time ...
For girls, the most popular name was Olivia, with 136 newborns given the name. It was closely followed by Amelia, with 116, ...
The Office for National Statistics said the value of goods exported to America tumbled by £2 billion in April – the fastest pace since records began. Holly Williams Thursday 12 June 2025 11:22 BST ...
A probe into the culture, structure, and leadership of the Office for National Statistics has been launched by the government amid concerns over the quality of its data. The review, led by Robert ...
The UK Statistics Authority said on Tuesday it had recommended the Government ask the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to carry out the 2031 census of England and Wales, as was the case in ...
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK government’s statistics authority, charged with “collecting, analysing and disseminating statistics about the UK’s economy, society and ...
British house prices rose by 10.3% in November compared with the same month in 2021, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Wednesday, slowing from October's revised 12.4% rise.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published a review of data-linking practices across government, and elsewhere, in order to make data more useful for government decision-making.
Jaguar Land Rover is to axe up to 500 management jobs in the UK through a voluntary redundancy programme. The automotive giant said that around 1.5 per cent of its UK workforce wo ...
Just as the pandemic raised demand for fast, reliable statistics, it made them harder to collect. Handily, number-crunchers at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) rose to the challenge.