ONS Publishes Updated UK Labour Market Statistics With Regional Breakdowns

Overview

• The Office for National Statistics published two linked releases on Tuesday that make updated national and subnational labour-market data available on GOV.UK.
• The national 'UK Labour Market: August 2026' release is labelled as accredited official statistics and gives headline measures for the whole UK.
• The linked regional release, 'Labour market in the regions of the UK: August 2026', supplies rolling three-month Labour Force Survey estimates and breakdowns for regions, local authorities and parliamentary constituencies.
• Several Claimant Count outputs and constituency-level tables in the regional release are marked as official statistics in development and the package includes sampling variability and revisions analyses.
• All pages link directly to the ONS documents and reiterate that official statistics are produced impartially and are intended to inform local policy, business planning and public understanding.