The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the United Kingdom was worth 3643.83 billion US dollars in 2024, according to official data from the World Bank. The GDP value of the United Kingdom represents 3.43 percent of the world economy. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United Kingdom GDP - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the United Kingdom expanded 0.30 percent in the second quarter of 2025 over the previous quarter. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United Kingdom GDP Growth Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Price quote data (for locally collected data only) and consumption segment indices that underpin consumer price inflation statistics, giving users access to the detailed data that are used in the construction of the UK’s inflation figures. The data are being made available for research purposes only and are not an accredited official statistic. From October 2024, private school fees and part-time education classes have been included in the consumption segment indices file. For more information on the introduction of consumption segments, please see the Consumer Prices Indices Technical Manual, 2019. Note that this dataset was previously called the consumer price inflation item indices and price quotes dataset.

The benchmark interest rate in the United Kingdom was last recorded at 4 percent. This dataset provides - United Kingdom Interest Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

The United Kingdom recorded a Current Account deficit of 28939 GBP Million in the second quarter of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United Kingdom Current Account - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Consumer trends time series dataset up to Quarter 2 (April to June) 2025.

Measures of monthly UK inflation data including CPIH, CPI and RPI. These tables complement the consumer price inflation time series dataset.

Quarterly national accounts aggregates, per head data. These include gross domestic product by income and expenditure, gross value added, gross fixed capital formation, change in inventories, gross operating surplus and revisions.

Consumer Confidence in the United Kingdom decreased to -19 points in September from -17 points in August of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United Kingdom Consumer Confidence - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Inflation Rate in the United Kingdom remained unchanged at 3.80 percent in August. This dataset provides - United Kingdom Inflation Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

The United Kingdom recorded a trade deficit of 5260 GBP Million in July of 2025. This dataset provides - United Kingdom Balance of Trade - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the United Kingdom expanded 1.40 percent in the second quarter of 2025 over the same quarter of the previous year. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United Kingdom GDP Annual Growth Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

The dataset includes line-by-line information on Retained EU Law (REUL, now known as assimilated law), as reported to the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) by UK government departments. REUL was a type of domestic law, created by the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and which came into effect at the end of the UK’s post-Brexit transition period (which ended on 31 December 2020). The primary objective of REUL was to provide legal continuity and certainty at the end of the transition period. On 29 June 2023 the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill 2023 received Royal Assent, providing departments powers to either reform REUL or remove it from the UK statute book. Under the ‘REUL Act’, REUL which had not been revoked by 2023 then became “assimilated law”. UK government departments have worked to identify the REUL / assimilated law they own and take decisions on, and actions to address it. The dataset lists all REUL / assimilated law identified by UK government departments, which pieces they own, and a range of information including which policy area and sector of the economy it relates to, territorial application, whether it relates to an international obligation. It also outlines the current status of each piece e.g., whether it has been amended or repealed, the date of any action, and hyperlinks to any related legislation. The contents are updated every 6-months through a cross-Whitehall commissioning exercise. Departments are responsible for updating their own datasets, which are then quality assured and collated by DBT teams.

Comprehensive database of time series covering measures of inflation data for the UK including CPIH, CPI and RPI.

The UK Civil Society Almanac is now in its 16th edition. It brings together data from charities’ accounts, administrative data and surveys to provide a comprehensive overview of the structure and economy of the UK voluntary sector. In so doing it offers invaluable insights into the ways in which the sector is experiencing growth and change. More details available at: https://data.ncvo.org.uk/category/almanac/

Background of the survey: The middle of the 19th century is the time of the emerging economies and of the beginning of the world trade. The financial power of individual bankers was not able anymore to sustain the international economy. Therefore individual bankers formed banks as cooperation. In those times also the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft was founded as a partnership limited by shares. In its 100 years of existence the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft survived times of economic crisis and the Second World War. The situation after the Second World War meant new challenges for the unit branch bank. The history of the Berliner bank is uncommon, because it survived the turbulences of history and still exists with its old name and old legal form. The banking system of a country is the result of a historical development process in which politics, economy and banks participate. While the English banking system developed in the context of the goldsmiths in London that issued receipts for the storage of precious metals, on the European continent mainly individual bankers had influence in the time of absolute principalities. Through the liberal revolution in 1948/49 the close relationship between the state and individual bankers was leaven. Simultaneously with those political changes the industrial revolution started in Europe. Finance institutions for the needs of the new industry were necessary and could only now, after the liberation of state paternalism, develop. The individual company must be understood in the context of the times and its environment. Therefor the history of the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft also needs to be understood in the context of the respective times. In the year of the foundation of the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft, 1856, Germany was in an upheaval of enormous extent, shaped by the attempt of a national unity emerged from the Napoleonic Wars. Simultaneously, the European continent was influenced by the political and economic liberalism coming from England. Due to the economic liberalization of England mobile capital was available there, initially provided by the overseas trade and the large estates available. On the European continent there was no comparable banking or credit system. The individual banks reliant on their equity capital could at most rely on the largest of them. But when the most important individual banks of the continent suffered heavy losses, the development of a new type of bank was necessary. But in the beginning the Prussian state was hostile towards the idea of capital companies, so that the actual impulse came from France. Pereires together with Fould created three bank types in 1851, which had a major impact for the future of the European continent: the business bank, the mortgage bank and mutual banks. The economic boom of the 50s showed very soon that for the resulting financing tasks especially the type of commercial bank could come into question because this type alone was in a position to raise the necessary capital. Because of those circumstances and because of the foresight of the individual bankers of those times, the idea to found a joint Bank together with different individual bankers, that could still act independently, emerged. In this context the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft was founded with the explicit task to realize the ventures that emerged from the German industrialization. Time and place of the survey: The investigation period and the object of study relate to the development history of the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft between 1856 and 1956. Specification of the research question: The development of the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft and therein mutually reflecting back the history of the German economy and industrialization from 1856 to 1955 will be shown on the basis of annual reports from that time. Data tables in HISTAT: 1. Annual reports of the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft 1856 – 1955. Hintergrund der Studie: Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts ist die Zeit der aufstrebenden Volkswirtschaften und des beginnenden Welthandels. Die Finanzkraft des Privatbankiers genügte nicht mehr den Aufgaben, die eine internationale Wirtschaft stellte. Daher wurde vor allem auf Initiative der Privatbankiers eine Bank in Gesellschaftsform gegründet. In dieser Zeit entstand auch die als Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien gegründete Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft. In den 100 Jahren ihres Bestehens überstand die Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft die Zeiten des wirtschaftlichen Niedergangs und den zweiten Weltkrieg. Die Ereignisse nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg stellte die filiallose Bank-Gesellschaft vor neuen Herausforderungen. Die Geschichte der Berliner Bank ist ungewöhnlich, weil sie die Turbulenzen der Geschichte und den politischen Zusammenbruch überstanden hat und schließlich unter ihrem alten Namen und in alter Rechtsform weiter bestehen kann. Das Banksystem eines Landes ist das Ergebnis eines historischen Entwicklungsprozesses, an dem Politik und Wirtschaft zusammen mit den Banken beteiligt sind. Während das englische Bankensystem sich aus dem Geschäft der Londoner Goldschmiede entwickelte, die für das ihnen zur Aufbewahrung anvertraute Edelmetall Quittungen ausstellte, prägten auf dem europäischen Kontinent Privatbankiers in der Zeit der absoluten Fürsten und Städte den vorherrschenden Bankentyp. Durch die liberale Revolution 1848/49 wurde schließlich die enge Beziehung zwischen Staat und Privatbankier aufgelockert. Zeitgleich mit diesen politischen Wandlungsprozessen setzte in Europa die industrielle Revolution ein. Finanzierungsinstitute für den Bedarf der neuen Industrie wurden benötigt und konnten sich erst jetzt, nach der Befreiung von staatlicher Bevormundung, entwickeln. Das einzelne Unternehmen muss im Zusammenhang der jeweiligen Zeit und seiner Umwelt begriffen werden. Daher muss auch die Geschichte der Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft im Zusammenhang der jeweiligen Zeit verstanden werden. Im Jahre der Gründung der Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft, 1856, befand sich Deutschland in einem Umbruch von sekularem Ausmaß, geprägt durch den Versuch einer nationalen Einheit, hervorgegangen aus den napoleonischen Kriegen. Gleichzeitig wurde der europäische Kontinent durch den aus England überschwappenden politischen und wirtschaftlichen Liberalismus beeinflusst. Durch die Wirtschaftsliberalisierung Englands war dort bewegliches Kapital vorhanden, zunächst durch den Überseehandel und den Großgrundbesitz zur Verfügung gestellt. Auf dem Europäischen Kontinent gab es jedoch kein vergleichbares Banken- oder Kreditsystem. Die auf ihr Eigenkapital angewiesenen Privatbanken konnten allenfalls auf die größten unter ihnen zurückgreifen. Als die bedeutendsten Privatbanken des Kontinents jedoch schwere Verluste erlitten, drängte die Entwicklung zu einem neuen Bankentyp. Vorerst stand jedoch der Preußische Staat dem Gedanken von Kapitalgesellschaften ablehnend gegenüber, sodass der eigentliche Impuls aus Frankreich kam. Pereires schuf zusammen mit Fould 1851 drei Bankentypen, die für die Zukunft auf dem europäischen Kontinent die maßgeblichen werden sollten: Die Geschäftsbank, die Hypothekenbank und die Genossenschaftsbank. Der Wirtschaftsaufschwung der 50er Jahre zeigte sehr bald, dass für die dabei entstehenden Finanzierungsaufgaben vornehmlich der Typ der Geschäftsbank in Frage kommen konnte, weil sie allein in der Lage war, das erforderliche Kapital aufzubringen. Aus diesen Umständen heraus sowie aus der Voraussicht der damaligen Privatbankiers entstand die Idee auch als selbstständig bleibende Privatbankiers gemeinsam eine Bank zu gründen –die Berliner Handelsgesellschaft Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft–, deren ausdrückliche Aufgabe eben die Finanzierung jener Vorhaben sein sollten, die sich aus der Industrialisierung Deutschlands ergaben. Zeit und Ort der Untersuchung: Der Untersuchungszeitraum und der Untersuchungsgegenstand beziehen sich auf die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft zwischen1856 bis 1956. Der Autor spezifiziert seine Fragestellung wie folgt: Die Entwicklung der Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft sowie die sich darin wechselseitig wiederspiegelnde Geschichte der deutschen Wirtschaft und Industrialisierung zwischen 1856 und 1955 soll anhand der Geschäftsberichte aus dieser Zeit aufgezeigt werden. Datentabellen in HISTAT: 1. Geschäftsbericht der Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft 1856 – 1955.

This dataset was created through an anonymous survey of solicitors in England and Wales, conducted between 12 November 2019 and 13 January 2020. Respondents answered a series of questions regarding their use of AI technology, as well as their training for and attitudes to the use of technology in their work. After discarding partial responses, the dataset comprises a total of 353 valid responses.The proposed research will explore the potential and limitations of using artificial intelligence (AI) in support of legal services. AI's capabilities have made enormous recent leaps; many expect it to transform how the economy operates. In particular, activities relying on human knowledge to create value, insulated until now from mechanisation, are facing dramatic change. Amongst these are professional services, such as law. Like other professions, legal services contribute to the economy both through revenues of service providers and through benefits provided to clients. For large business clients, who can choose which legal regime will govern their affairs, UK legal services are an export good. For small businesses and citizens, working within the domestic legal system, UK legal services affect costs directly. Yet unlike other professions, the legal system has a dual role in society. Beyond the law's role in governing economic order, the legal system is more fundamentally a structure for social order. It sets out rules agreed on by society, and also the limits of politicians' ability to enact these rules. Consequently, the stakes for AI's implementation in UK legal services are high. If mishandled, it could threaten both economic success and governance more generally. Yet if executed effectively, it is an opportunity to improve legal services not only for export but also for citizens and domestic small businesses. Our research seeks to identify how constraints on the implementation of AI in legal services can be relaxed to unlock its potential for good. One major challenge is the need for 'complementary' adjustments. Adopting a disruptive new technology like AI requires changes in skills, training, and working practices, without which the productivity gains will be muted. We will investigate training and educational needs for lawyers' engagement with technology and programmers' engagement with law. With private sector partners, we will develop education and training packages that respond to these needs for delivery by both universities and private-sector firms. We will investigate emerging business models deploying AI in law, and identify best practice in governance and strategy. Finally, we will compare skills training and technology transfer in the UK with countries such as the US, Hong Kong and Singapore, and ask what UK policymakers can learn from these competitors. To the extent that these issues are also faced by other high-value professional services, these parts of our results will also have relevance for them. However, the dual role of the legal system poses unique challenges that justify a research package focusing primarily on this sector. There are constitutional limits to how far law's operation can be adjusted for economic reasons: we term this second constraint 'legitimacy'. We will map how automation in dispute resolution might trigger constitutional legal challenges, how these challenges relate to types of dispute resolution technology and types of claim, and use the resulting matrix to identify opportunities for maximum benefit from automation in dispute resolution. A third constraint is the limits of technological possibility. AI systems rely on machine learning, which reaches answers by identifying patterns in very large amounts of data. Its limitations are the size of the datasets needed, and its inability to provide an explanation for how the answer was reached. This poses particular difficulties for law, where many applications require or benefit from reasons being given. We will explore the possibility for frontier AI technologies to deliver legal reasoning. The research will involve a mix of disciplinary inputs, reflecting the multi-faceted nature of the problem: Law, Computer Science, Economics, Education, Management and Political Economy. Working closely with private-sector partners will ensure our research benefits from insights into, and testing against, real requirements. The survey was run anonymously using the Qualtrics platform. Invitations to participate were distributed by email to 10,000 randomly-selected solicitors. In order to increase survey participation, subsequent survey invitations were sent to under-represented groups of respondents. Further details of survey methodology, participant information, and the survey questions are included in the data documentation.

Quarterly house price data based on a sub-sample of the Regulated Mortgage Survey.

Unemployment Rate in the United Kingdom remained unchanged at 4.70 percent in July. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United Kingdom Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.