UK unemployment rates rise again, as the number of PAYE employees falls to 30.2 million in May, Labour Market figures show. This morning, the Office for National Statistics released Labour Market and PAYE figures revealing a 4.6% unemployment rate in February to April 2025 and a 0.9% fall in the number of payrolled employees in…
A new Care Plan is set to improve urgent and emergency care, as the number of A&E attendances dealt within 4 hours increased by 2.9% in April 2025. On Friday, the UK Government and NHS England published a new Urgent and Emergency Care Plan aimed at meeting the following by the end of the 2025/26…
New figures reveal an increase in the rate of pupils eligible for free-school meals, as the government announced this week an expansion of eligibility requirements. This morning, the Department for Education has released new statistics on school and pupil characteristics in England, revealing an over the year increase of nearly 1% in the rate of…
Gonorrhoea diagnoses decrease by 15.9%, as a new vaccine is set to be rolled out this summer. This accompanies an overall trend in the decrease of sexually transmitted infections diagnoses in England. This morning, the UK Health Security Agency released statistics on STIs revealing that 364,750 diagnoses were recorded in 2024, a 8.8% decrease from…
Pupil absence rates in England drop by 0.4% in overall absence and 1.8% in persistent absences over the year, new figures show. The Department for Education has released new statistics on pupil attendance for the academic year 2024/2025 to date (9th September to 18th May), showing an 18% persistent and a 6.7% overall absence rate…
In the first quarter of 2025 over 68k energy efficiency measures were installed across Great Britain, under a scheme to tackle fuel poverty and reduce carbon emissions, figures show. According to the latest data from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, around 4.2 million measures were installed in 2.5 million properties through the…
A record number of families and children are now using Tax-Free Childcare, new figures show. According to the latest data from HMRC, approximately 580k families were using Tax-Free Childcare for 709k children as of the 31st of March 2025. Polimapper’s visualisation shows that the South East saw the highest number of families and children utilising…
In March, insulation measure installations under the Great British Insulation Scheme increased by 14% compared to the previous month. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has released this month’s figures from the Great British Insulation Scheme report. The statistics reveal that in March 2025, 6.5k measures were installed in 4.9k British households. Since…
UK house prices continue to rise, with the annual growth rate increasing to 6.4% in March, compared to 5.5% in the previous month. Rates were particularly stark in Northern Ireland and England, Polimapper’s visualisation shows. This morning, the Office for National Statistics released new UK house price and private rent statistics for March and April…
In March 2025, 78.9% of NHS patients received their cancer diagnosis on time, a drop of over 1 percent from February, reversing the upward trend seen in the previous month. On Thursday, NHS England published its most recent data on cancer waiting times for March 2025, revealing that, out of 275.4k patients who were told…