The United Kingdom recorded a Government Debt to GDP of 95.90 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2024. This dataset provides - United Kingdom Government Debt To GDP - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Data on average personal wellbeing scores of the adult population in Great Britain from the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, broken down by responses to financial well-being questions.

Daily, weekly and monthly data showing seasonally adjusted and non-seasonally adjusted UK spending using debit and credit cards. These are official statistics in development. Source: CHAPS, Bank of England.

Point locations of Debt advice agencies including attributes information such as contact details and drop-in session times.

Debt advice agencies offer advice and support to people facing difficulties with debt and other finacial problems. Most agencies provide this assistence in a number of ways, including drop-in sessions, pre-arranged appointments, telephone consultations and online information. Note that you may need to bring some paperwork or personal details to attend drop-in sessions. Call the agency for details.

Consumer Credit in the United Kingdom decreased to 859 GBP Million in May from 1944 GBP Million in April of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United Kingdom Consumer Credit - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

This dataset provides values for PRIVATE DEBT TO GDP reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

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The Great Britain Historical Database has been assembled as part of the ongoing Great Britain Historical GIS Project. The project aims to trace the emergence of the north-south divide in Britain and to provide a synoptic view of the human geography of Britain at sub-county scales. Further information about the project is available on A Vision of Britain webpages, where users can browse the database's documentation system online.

The Great Britain Historical GIS Project has also produced digitised boundary data, which can be obtained from the UK Data Service Census Support service. Further information is available at census.ukdataservice.ac.uk

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The Great Britain Historical Database is a large database of British nineteenth and twentieth-century statistics. Where practical the referencing of spatial units has been integrated, data for different dates have been assembled into single tables.

The Great Britain Historical Database currently contains :

• Statistics from the 1861 Census and the Registrar General's reports, 1851-1861
  
• Employment statistics from the census, 1841-1931
  
• Demographic statistics from the census, 1841-1931
  
• Mortality statistics from the Registrar General's reports, 1861-1920
  
• Marriage statistics from the Registrar General's reports, 1841-1870
  
• Trade union statistics for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE), 1851-1918
  
• Trade union statistics for the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (ASCJ), 1863-1912
  
• Official poor law statistics, 1859-1915 and 1919-1939
  
• Wage statistics, 1845-1906
  
• Hours of work statistics, 1900-1913
  
• Small debt statistics from county courts, 1847-1913 and 1938
  

There are two tables in this part of the Great Britain Historical Database :

S_debt holds data for about 500 individual courts in England and Wales grouped by circuit taken from Returns of proceedings in the county courts of England and Wales. There are continuous annual series for 1868 to 1913, plus data for 1847, 1851 to 1857 and 1866.

Sd_1938 holds data for 439 county courts in England and Wales taken from the statistical returns of county courts for 1938.

Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

This dataset provides values for GOVERNMENT DEBT TO GDP reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

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The Family Resources Survey (FRS) has been running continuously since 1992 to meet the information needs of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). It is almost wholly funded by DWP.

The FRS collects information from a large, and representative sample of private households in the United Kingdom (prior to 2002, it covered Great Britain only). The interview year runs from April to March.

The focus of the survey is on income, and how much comes from the many possible sources (such as employee earnings, self-employed earnings or profits from businesses, and dividends; individual pensions; state benefits, including Universal Credit and the State Pension; and other sources such as savings and investments). Specific items of expenditure, such as rent or mortgage, Council Tax and water bills, are also covered.

Many other topics are covered and the dataset has a very wide range of personal characteristics, at the adult or child, family and then household levels. These include education, caring, childcare and disability. The dataset also captures material deprivation, household food security and (new for 2021/22) household food bank usage.

The FRS is a national statistic whose results are published on the gov.uk website. It is also possible to create your own tables from FRS data, using DWP’s Stat Xplore tool. Further information can be found on the gov.uk Family Resources Survey webpage.

Secure Access FRS data
In addition to the standard End User Licence (EUL) version, Secure Access datasets, containing unrounded data and additional variables, are also available for FRS from 2005/06 onwards - see SN 9256. Prospective users of the Secure Access version of the FRS will need to fulfil additional requirements beyond those associated with the EUL datasets. Full details of the application requirements are available from Guidance on applying for the Family Resources Survey: Secure Access.

FRS, HBAI and PI
The FRS underpins the related Households Below Average Income (HBAI) dataset, which focuses on poverty in the UK, and the related Pensioners' Incomes (PI) dataset. The EUL versions of HBAI and PI are held under SNs 5828 and 8503, respectively. The Secure Access versions are held under SN 7196 and 9257 (see above).

FRS 2023-24

Alongside the usual topics covered, the 2023-2024 FRS includes new variables on veterans (ex-armed forces, former regulars and reserves); care leavers (where young adults were previously living in care, during their teenage years); and, for the self-employed, length of time in that occupation. For doctors, we add clarifying variables for NHS vs private earnings streams. There are new variables on food support from friends/relatives, which complement the existing food bank and household food security set. 2023-2024 also includes Cost of Living Payment variables, including those on certain state benefits and the Warm Homes Discount scheme.

The achieved sample was over 16,500 households (28,500+ adults). A large majority of interviews were face-to-face with a minority being by telephone.

The BENUNIT table contains a raft of variables on the new material deprivation question set; see GOV.UK for background.

This version of the dataset (End User Licence) adds the DEBT table for the first time this year. The table contains responses on credit card debt, loan debt, hire purchase debt and store card debt.

Please send any feedback directly to the FRS Team Inbox: team.frs@dwp.gov.uk

Documentation

Many variables in the data files are fully labelled, but additional details can be found in the frs2324_variable_listing_eul.xlsx document.

Main Topics:

• Work
• Pensions received, pension contributions made
• Income from earnings
• Income from state benefits
• Income from child maintenance
• Income from savings and investments
• Income from grants
• Income from royalties and landlord profits
• Disability, Care, Childcare, Tenure and housing cost (rent/mortgage), and house price
• Material deprivation and household food security/food bank usage/reliance on friends/family
• Nature of employment or self employment, incl SIC and doctor/dentist, director
• Education
• Level of savings
• Level of debt

Repossession is where a court order has been granted ordering a debtor to hand back a property to a creditor where the property was either used as collateral (for a mortgage, loan or an unsecured debt or loan which has been secured by an order charging land) or rented or leased in a previous contract between the creditor and the debtor. The court order can be made by the High Court (for mortgage repossessions), the County Court (for ejectment cases where a property has been rented) or the Magistrates Court (involving squatter cases). If the debtor fails to obey the terms of the court order, the creditor may apply to the Enforcement of Judgments Office (EJO) to enforce it. Physical repossession occurs when the EJO remove all persons in occupation of the property and their goods. In some occasions, repossession also occurs when there are no persons in occupation of the property and there are no goods are removed. Repossession is recorded as completed when all persons in occupation of the property have been removed, their goods removed and the property is handed over to the creditor. Repossession is also recorded as completed if there are no persons and or goods to remove and the property is handed over to the creditor. For the majority of cases, repossession will relate to a single property, but a court order can sometimes refer to more than one property. Property that may be repossessed include private dwellings or business premises that are either leased, rented or owner occupied. It can also relate to a piece of land that contains no dwellings such as agricultural land or wasteland. Property tenures that may be repossessed are those that are rented from a social housing authority or landlord (such as the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, or a Housing Association), those that are rented or leased from a private landlord, owner occupied properties that have a mortgage or secured loan registered against their property or properties that have a debt secured by way of an order charging land. Rented properties are repossessed by way of an ejectment order obtained at the County Court, with mortgaged properties repossessed by way of a mortgage possession order obtained at the High Court. On occasions, an order may be sought from the Magistrates' Court to repossess a property inhabited by a squatter. The postcode recorded for each repossession refers to the correspondence address of the person to whom enforcement has been sought. This is not always the address of the property to be repossessed as the property may not have a postal address (if it is a piece of land) or it may relate to the correspondence address of a landlord or a second home. A slight change to the methodology used to generate these data occurred during the period of this series. From 2007 to March 2014, the EJO have used the same methodology for recording repossessions (based on the recorded ‘return date’ repossession case held by enforcement officers (who manage a repossession case). Since April 2014, a different methodology has been used (based upon the date the repossession was completed which is marked against a case file). The change was made to make the methodology a more accurate reflection of the date the repossession was completed. Users of this data may have been able to self-identify themselves due to the low values in some cells. Primary and secondary disclosure control methods have been applied to this data, denoted by cells with missing data in the tables. Values of less than four, but not zero, were initially suppressed, but some of these values could have been calculated using some row and column totals and thus secondary suppression was applied to the next lowest value in the row and column. The dataset was created using the Central Postcode Directory (CPD). Unknown/missing postcodes are not shown but are included in the Northern Ireland totals. The data contain the number of cases disposed by each Assembly Area and have the following proportions of postcode coverage: 2012, 97.8%; 2013, 97.2%; 2014, 97.3%; 2015, 97.7%; 2016, 97.6%; 2017, 98.5%; 2018, 97.4%; 2019, 97.2%; 2020, 96.4%; 2021, 100%; 2022, 95.9%; 2023, 97.5%

Tables show individual insolvencies made up of bankruptcy orders and individual voluntary arrangements (IVAs), New Debt Relief Orders, and breathing space registrations from May 2021, as counts and rates (per 10,000 people).

Insolvent individuals in England and Wales are dealt with mainly under the Insolvency Act 1986. A bankruptcy order is made on the petition of the debtor or one or more of his creditors when the court is satisfied that there is no prospect of the debt being paid.

There are also individual voluntary arrangements (IVAs) and deeds of arrangement, which enable debtors to come to an agreement with their creditors.

Classifying insolvent individuals into geographic areas is done using the postcode that the insolvent individual provides. The use of this in assigning an individual to a geographical area is only as good as the postcode information given. Inaccurate postcodes or incomplete/missing postcodes will lead to missing data.

Rates include revisions due to changes in population estimates.

Rates per 10,000 are calculated using area population figures for adults aged 18+.

This dataset is one of the Greater London Authority's measures of Economic Fairness. Click here to find out more.

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The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material.
The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files.

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The files in this dataset relate to the datafiles held in the Leicester database in the directory /rjb/kingdebt/*.*.
File Information
g121kdd1.* Malet's totals compared with other sources, 1600-56
g121kdd2.* Malet's totals compared with other sources, 1662-83
g121kdd3.* The secret expenditure of the French monarchy, 1594-1681
g121kdd4.* Royal income from the affaires extraordinaires (traites), 1623-61
g121kdd5.* Loans contracted by the French monarchy, 1610-45
g121kdd6.* Rents payable by revenue farmers to the French monarchy, 1603-64
g121kdm1.* Traites and loans contracted by the French monarchy, 1613-61

Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

‘This request relates to penalties for non-payment of NHS costs in England and Wales. The purpose of this request is to provide training to FCA-authorised and local authority debt advisers, to ensure that advice provided to those with NHS penalties is accurate and comprehensive. Please could you provide details of the circumstances (if any) in which a penalty may be repaid in instalments, and any operational guidance which covers this situation Please could you provide details of the circumstances (if any) in which a penalty may be waived, and any operational guidance which covers this situation A redacted copy of a document entitled NHS Dental & Penalty Charges and Debt Recovery Rules dated June 2012 has previously been released (see https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/?ACT=39&fid=11&aid=902_bNJxVR7wPwbRdBNBFVBK&board_id=1). Please could you provide a current version of this document or any successor document. Please could you confirm a. Which external debt collection agencies (if any) are currently contracted to seek recovery of unpaid penalties b. After a penalty is issued and is unpaid, how long would it take before it is passed to an external debt collection agent c. Once a penalty is passed to an external debt collection agent for recovery, how long would that agent attempt to recover it Please could you provide the following data for the calendar years 2019, 2020 and 2021: a. Number of penalty charges issued b. Number of penalty charges cancelled or waived following contact from the patient c. Number of penalty charges passed to an external debt collection agency for recovery action d. Number of penalty charges which have resulted in County Court proceedings’

The Student Income and Expenditure Survey (SIES) is designed to collect detailed information on income and expenditure of Higher Education students, and investigates issues such as student debt or hardship. The survey covers both full-time and part-time students at higher education institutions (HEI) and further education colleges (FEC), including the Open University (OU), participating in undergraduate courses. Undergraduate courses included first degree and Higher National Diplomas/Certificates (HNDs/HNCs), or in university-based postgraduate initial teacher training courses (PGCEs).

The 2011/12 survey is the latest in a series of surveys carried out at approximately three year intervals. The methods and interview content have been kept as similar as possible to previous waves in order to make any trend comparisons as robust as possible.

The main aims of the SIES 2011/12 Survey were to:

• provide detailed information on the income, expenditure and debt levels of higher education (HE) students in England and Wales
• allow for analysis on larger and more memorable spending captured in the main questionnaire, as well as day-to-day spending recorded in the seven-day spending diary
• provide a baseline for assessing the impact of changes in student finance introduced in September 2012 for those starting HE in the 2012/13 academic year

Fieldwork was conducted between February 2012 and June 2012. Please see the User Guide accompanying the SIES 2011/12 dataset for further information.

Secure Access Dataset and Related Studies:
In the Secure Access version of SIES 2011/12 the raw financial variables have not been banded, as was the case for the standard End User Licence (EUL) version held by the UK Data Archive under SN 7611. The Archive also holds an EUL version of SIES 2007/08 under SN 6319.

Published annually by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC), the International Development Statistics provide up-to-date comparative statistics and information on international development from 1975 onwards, presented in the following key tables:

Creditor Reporting System
The objective of the CRS Aid Activity database is to provide a set of readily available basic data that enables analysis on where aid goes, what purposes it serves and what policies it aims to implement, on a comparable basis for all DAC members. Data are collected on individual projects and programmes. Focus is on financial data but some descriptive information is also made available.

Geographical distribution of financial flows
This dataset provides comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of aid and other resource flows to more than 200 recipients. The data show each country's intake of official development assistance and well as other official and private funds from members of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD, multilateral agencies and other key donors.

Detailed aid statistics
The detailed aid statistics provide comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of foreign aid and other resource flows from donor countries to recipient countries.

Gender, Institutions and Development
The Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base presents comparative data on gender equality. It has been compiled from secondary sources such as Gender Stats and the Human Development Report as well as from in-depth reviews of country case studies. The data are divided into six categories: (i) general country information, (ii) social institutions, (iii) access to resources, (iv) political empowerment, (v) economic status of women and (vi) composite indicators of gender equality.

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The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material.
The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files.

Main Topics:

The files in this dataset relate to the datafiles held in the Leicester database in the directory /poul/*.*. The data were compiled from various medieval sources and, for the early modern period, the source used is M.L. Nathanson, Historisk statistik Fremstilling af Danmarks National og Stats Huusholdning fra Frederik den Fjerdes Tid indtil Nutiden, (Copenhagen, 1836).
File Information
g130dd04.* Revenues of the Particulair-Kasse (the king's special revenues), 1731-1.7.1771
g130dd05.* Revenues from toll, excise duties and subsidies, 1747-1806
g130dd06.* Expenditure of the Danish state, 1731-84
g130dd07.* The national debt of Denmark, 1731-63
g130dd08.* Expenditure of the Danish state, 1602-99
g130dd09.* Revenues of the Danish state, 1600-50
g130dd10.* Ordinary and extraordinary revenues of the Danish state, 1710-20
g130dd11.* Total revenue from the Danish domains (len and Amter), 1642-48
g130dd12.* Revenue from the 'Uniontaxes' from Denmark, the Norwegian fiefs (len) and the towns and clergy in Norway, 1640-48
g130dd13.* Revenue from the Sound toll, 1636-48
g130dd14.* Ordinary and extraordinary revenues of the Danish state, 1710-20
g130dd15.* Annual Danish mint output, 1626-70
g130dd16.* Revenue from the Sound toll, 1560-84
g130dd17.* Revenue from Danish taxes, 1558-87
g130dd18.* Estimated revenues of the Danish king, c 1230 and c 1524
g130dd19.* Revenues of the Danish Finansdeputation, 1820-40
g130dd20.* Revenues of the Danish Statsgeldsdirektion, 1820-40
g130dd21.* Revenues of the Danish state, 1841-53
g130dd22.* Revenues of the Danish state, 1854-67
g130dd23.* Revenues and expenditure of Aabenraa amt, Schleswig, 1535-39
g130dd24.* Revenues of the Danish central administration, 1513-23, including domestic credit
g130dd25.* Revenues of the Swedish royal chamber, 1527-37
g130dd26.* Total debt of the Danish king, 1534-48
g130dm01.* Danish royal revenues, 1710-1806
g130dm02.* Danish royal revenues and expenditure, 1710-1806
g130dm03.* Expenditure of the Danish state, 1710-1784
g130dm04.* Revenue from the Sound toll, 1560-1648
g130dm05.* Revenue to the Danish monarchy from Denmark, Norway and Schleswig-Holstein, 1731-71
g130dm06.* Denmark and Norway: army size, army cost and revenue to Danish monarchy, 1730-1769

Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

Home Loans in the United Kingdom increased to 2054 GBP Million in May from -776 GBP Million in April of 2025. This dataset provides - United Kingdom Mortgage Lending- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

This dataset provides values for PRIVATE DEBT TO GDP reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.