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Today’s labour market data tell us a bit more about how the labour market is responding to high inflation and the cost of living shock. We see some things we would expect, some things which may be surprising, and much that remains unresolved.

Starmer claims Tory failure to secure stronger growth has left families £8,800 worse off on average
Starmer says Britain’s economy is weaker than its competitors. That is why Labour is making growth a priority.

He says tonight people will hear from two other candidates to be the next PM.

New report makes the case for a £15/hour minimum wage by 2024 to compensate employees for a “lost decade” of wages 14 million people would see an increase in pay under proposals to increase the minimum wage to £15/hour, according to new research by James Meadway and Howard Reed for the Progressive Economy Forum (PEF).  … The Case for a £15/hour Minimum Wage Read More »

The results of the 2021 England and Wales census have been released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which has revealed the latest population figures for towns and cities across the country.

Within the results are pieces of information relating to Manchester and the wider Greater Manchester area.

The population of England and Wales now stands at almost 60 million people – a rise of more than 3.5 million in a decade, the latest census has revealed.

The two nations are now home to 59,597,300, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said – with 56,489,800 in England and 3,107,500 in Wales.

That means the growth in population, from 56,075,912 in 2011, is equivalent to adding a group of people larger than those currently living in Wales.

The North East has seen the smallest increase in population size among all the English regions, according to the latest census results.

The census takes place every 10-years and more than 24 million households across England and Wales filled in census questionnaires in spring last year, with a record 89 per cent of responses completed online.

Newcastle is among the areas with the most young people in England and Wales despite the proportion of under-30s calling the area home falling in the last decade, new Census figures outline.

The Census takes place every 10 years, with the latest snapshot captured on March 21 2021.

he idea that the UK is in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis is, as Donald Trump would say, fake news where the country’s wealthiest are concerned. While millions struggle to pay bills, energy companies are recording ever-greater profits, the rich are getting richer, and the Conservative government offers little more than patronising platitudes.

We will do “everything in our power” to help people, Chancellor Nadeem Zahawi said last week, but analysts now warn that the British public could be hit with a £1,200 rise in energy prices this October, pushing up a typical energy bill to an estimated £3,244 a year. But none of Zahawi, Boris Johnson in his last days of power, or either of the candidates who will replace him as prime minister, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, have any intention of doing “everything” they could to help out.

The UK’s failure to get serious about inequality and weak growth over the past 15 years has left the average British household £8,800 poorer than its equivalent in five comparable countries, research has found.

A “toxic combination” of poor productivity and a failure to narrow the divide between rich and poor had resulted in a widening prosperity gap with France, Germany, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands, the report from the Resolution Foundation said.

The census is a once-in-a-decade count of the UK population. It collects detailed information about demographics, employment and housing.

Initial census results have now been published for England, Wales and Northern Ireland – showing the largest population recorded so far in each nation.

In this Insight, we explore what we know so far and the timetable for more detailed data releases.

New data from the 2021 census has found that nearly one in five people, or 11.1 million, in England and Wales is over 65. This is the highest share of people in the age bracket on record, signaling an aging population that is nearing retirement. North Norfolk had the oldest population, with one in three people being over 65.

Although the absolute number of young people has increased, as our chart shows, their ratio to the rest of the population fell in the two nations, with 2021 reflecting a lower share of people aged 0-19 than ten years before. This is mirrored in the wider trend, as while the population has increased by 3.5 million (or 6.3 percent) since 2011, when it was 56,075,912, this growth has been at a slower pace than in the ten years before, when it rose by 7.8 percent (or 4 million).

Newly-released figures from the 2021 Census are likely to have significantly undercounted the capital’s population and should be treated with “extreme caution” as a basis for the allocation of government funding, according to London Councils, the cross-party body that represents the capital’s 33 local authorities.

The headline Census finding is that London’s population was 8.8 million as of 21 March 2021 – Census Day – but London Councils point out that this figure is almost 300,000 lower than the most recent Office for National Statistics projection for 2021 (produced in 2018) and just over 200,000 lower than the mid-year estimate for 2020.

The first published data from the 2021 census results for England and Wales has identified Tewkesbury borough as one of the fastest growing regions in the UK.

Figures published by the Office for National Statistics reveal population growth in the Tewkesbury local authority area of 15.8 per cent, an increase from 81,943 residents in 2011 to 94,900 in 2021, the equivalent of 12,957 additional residents. The increase can be attributed to births and people moving into the borough to live and work.

The Office of National Statistics has released the first results from the 2021 Census and produced comparisons to the 2011 data. 

There are 3.5 million more people living in England and Wales in 2021 compared to 2011 according to the latest census record.

Wales has seen the smallest population increase of just 1.4% compared to England which ranges from a 1.9% increase in the North East to 8.3% increase across the East of England.

The results of the 2021 census have been revealed, showing a change to the make up of the UK.

Citizens in England, Wales and Northern Ireland of the UK took part in the census last year, while Scottish citizens took part in the census in 2022.

THERE are now a record number of older people living in England with the over 65s the largest age group, latest census results show.

The population of England and Wales rose by 3.5 million to 59.6 million in the last decade, census data for 2021 has shown.

The 6.3% increase signals a slowdown in population growth over the last 10 years, according to figures released on Tuesday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

POPULATION of Basingstoke has increased by just over 10 per cent in the last 10 years, according to the initial results from the UK’s first digital census.

The population of Basingstoke and Deane was 167,800 in 2011 census, which has grown by 17,400 to a total population of 185,200 in 2021 - an increase of 10.4 per cent.

There has also been a 10.5 per cent rise in households with at least one permanent resident over the last decade.