Release

Balance of payments for the UK: Oct to Dec and annual 2015

Released: 31 March 2016 9:30am
Next release: 30 June 2016

Summary

Quarterly data for trade in goods and services, income, current and capital transfers, transactions in UK external assets and liabilities, and levels of identified assets and liabilities are detailed within the current account.

Publications

Data

  • Balance of payments – revision triangles

    Quarterly summary information on the size and direction of the revisions made to the data covering a five-year period, UK.

  • Balance of payments

    Quarterly summary of balance of payments accounts including the current account, capital transfers, transactions, and levels of UK external assets and liabilities.

  • Balance of payments time series

    Quarterly summary of balance of payments accounts including the current account, capital transfers, transactions and levels of UK external assets and liabilities.

Contact details

Name

Craig Taylor

Email

bop@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 (0)1633 456333

About the data

Accredited Official Statistics

These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:

  • meet user needs
  • are presented clearly and accessibly
  • are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest

Pre-release access list

The phrase 'Pre-release Access' refers to the practice whereby official statistics in their final form, and any accompanying written commentary, are made available to an eligible person in advance of their publication. The rules and principles which govern pre-release access are featured within the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008.

Besides ONS staff, the following persons are given pre-release access by the period indicated before release.

| Access granted to | Department | Period | | :— | :— | :— | :— | :— | | Assistant Economist | Department for business, Innovation & Skills | 24 hrs | | Briefing Clearance Official | Department for business, Innovation & Skills | 24 hrs | | Briefing Statistical Officer | Department for business, Innovation & Skills | 24 hrs | | Chief Executive | Department for business, Innovation & Skills | 24 hrs | | Ministers Private Secretaries | Department for business, Innovation & Skills | 24 hrs | | Permanent Secretary | Department for business, Innovation & Skills | 24 hrs | | | | Press Officer | Department for business, Innovation & Skills | 24 hrs | | Secretary of State | Department for business, Innovation & Skills | 24 hrs | | Special Advisor | Department for business, Innovation & Skills | 24 hrs | | Trade Minister | Department for business, Innovation & Skills | 24 hrs | | | | Parliamentary Clerk - Prime Minister | 10 Downing Street | 24 hrs | | Permanent Secretary - Prime Minister | 10 Downing Street | 24 hrs | | Prime Minister | 10 Downing Street | 24 hrs | | Private Secretary - Prime Minister | 10 Downing Street | 24 hrs | | PPS - Prime Minister | 10 Downing Street | 24 hrs | | Senior Policy Advisor - Prime Minister | 10 Downing Street | 24 hrs | | Chancellor of the Exchequer | HM Treasury | 24 hrs | | Chief Economic Advisor  | HM Treasury | 24 hrs | | Chief Secretary to the Treasury | HM Treasury | 24 hrs | | CST Press Officer | HM Treasury | 24 hrs | | Duty Press Officer | HM Treasury | 24 hrs | | Economic Secretary to the Treasury | HM Treasury | 24 hrs | | Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury | HM Treasury | 24 hrs | | Financial Secretary to the Treasury | HM Treasury | 24 hrs | | Permanent Secretary to the Treasury | HM Treasury | 24 hrs | | Special Advisor | HM Treasury | 24 hrs | | Special Advisor | HM Treasury | 24 hrs | | Treasury Clearing Official | HM Treasury | 24 hrs |