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Consumer trends, UK: April to June 2025
What's in the bulletin?
- Household spending growth (adjusted for inflation) is estimated to have grown by 0.1% in Quarter 2 (April to June) 2025.
- The largest contributors to household spending growth were miscellaneous goods and services, transport, and restaurants and hotels.
- Compared with the same quarter a year ago -- Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2024 -- household spending is estimated to have grown by 1.1%.
UK Environmental Accounts: 2025
What's in the bulletin?
- UK greenhouse gas emissions on a residence basis in 2023 were 479 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mt CO2e) - the lowest since 1990, the earliest year available; this is 4.3% below the 2022 level and 43.0% below 1990's level.
- Taken together, consumer expenditure remains the largest single contributor to this measure of UK emissions in 2023, accounting for 25.4% of total emissions, followed by the energy industry with 15.5%.
- Among industries, energy saw the largest decrease of emissions by industry since 2022, decreasing 14.6% to 74 Mt CO2e in 2023.
Datasets related to Satellite accounts
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Consumer trends time series
Consumer trends time series dataset up to Quarter 2 (April to June) 2025.
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Consumer trends: chained volume measure, seasonally adjusted
Quarterly and annual data on household expenditure in the UK, chained volume measure, seasonally adjusted.
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Consumer trends: current price, seasonally adjusted
Quarterly and annual data on household expenditure in the UK, current price, seasonally adjusted.
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Household satellite account, UK
Annual data on the output, intermediate consumption and gross value added of home-produced services.
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Consumer trends: current price, not seasonally adjusted
Quarterly and annual data on household expenditure in the UK, current price, not seasonally adjusted.
Publications related to Satellite accounts
Statistical bulletins
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Consumer trends, UK: April to June 2025
Household final consumption expenditure (HHFCE) for the UK, as a measure of economic growth. Includes spending on goods and services by UK households as defined in the National Accounts.
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UK Environmental Accounts: 2025
Measuring the contribution of the environment to the economy, the impact of economic activity on the environment, and responses to environmental issues.
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UK Tourism Satellite Account: 2017
Annual inbound, outbound and domestic expenditure on tourism, internal tourism consumption and employment for the tourism industries.
Articles
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Blue Book 2025: advanced aggregate estimates
Annual and quarterly impacts on the 2025 UK National Accounts from recent methodological improvements, and new survey and administrative information.
Methodology related to Satellite accounts
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