Local authorities in England received £70m in grants from central government in 2023/2024, new local authority revenue data reveals. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has published new data on local authority revenue expenditure and financing in England. The dataset includes more than 2000 different data categories, providing a detailed insight into local…
41,922 government supported heat pumps were installed last year, new data from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero shows. As heat pumps become a more popular, environmentally friendly option for house heating in England, DESNZ has revealed that 11,492 government supported heat pump installations took place in the last quarter of 2024, nearly…
Rates of type 2 diabetes have increased to 7% in England, new data reveals. The ICB of Black Country registered the highest type 2 diabetes prevalence (9.7%) in 2021, whilst the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB had the lowest estimated prevalence (6.3%). For those with diabetes, the NHS sets out three treatment targets for…
Child mortality rates have significantly increased in England, the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities (OHID) reports. Over the last 20 years, the child mortality rates have fallen from 18.0 deaths per 100,000 registered in 2001/2003 to 10.0 per 100,000 in 2019 to 2021. However, this has significantly increased in the last two time periods…
Revised data published by the Department for Education reveals an increasing performance gap in England at key stage 4. Whilst overall attainment in English and Maths GCSE increased by 0.6% in 2023/2024, the data highlights a widening gap between the most and least disadvantaged pupils. The disadvantage gap, which calculates the performance gap between disadvantaged…
Rates of rough sleeping in England have increased for a third year in a row, with 4,667 people sleeping rough in the streets of England last autumn. The rate for rough sleeping was 8.1 people per 100,000 in 2024, compared to a lower rate of 6.8 the year before. The Ministry of Housing, Communities &…
In January, 89.4% of people who have received an NHS England service at a pharmacy were satisfied with their experience, data from the most recent Health Insight Survey shows. This represents an increase of 0.5% in satisfaction from the month before. Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied rates remained the same, whilst dissatisfied rates saw a decrease…
As the Climate Change Committee released its Seventh Carbon Budget, the latest carbon emissions data reveals that overall emissions in the UK saw a decrease of 5% in 2022, from the year before. The data published by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero showed that of the 361 local authorities of the UK…
In England, during the 2023/2024 financial year, 31,165 tooth extractions were performed on children and young people (aged 0-19) due to tooth decay, the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities reports. This represents 66% of the total 47,581 tooth extractions carried out on this age group and shows a 17% increase in decay-related extractions compared…
In England, 41% of pupils missed at least 10% of classes in the 2024/2025 Autumn term, according to data recently published by the ONS. Average attendance was 94.8% for primary, 91.9% for secondary, and 87.4% for special schools. Richmond upon Thames had the highest primary (95.7%) and secondary (94.1%) attendance. Newham showed the lowest special…