Sources
Every figure on this site traces to a public, free-to-access primary source. We do not use paywalled publications as primary evidence. Where a feed is scraped rather than pulled from a stable API, we publish the endpoint and the parse script for review.
Bank of England -- Exchange rates
Homepage ↗Bank of England -- SONIA
Homepage ↗ICE -- UK Natural Gas Futures
Homepage ↗LSEG -- FTSE 250
Homepage ↗LSEG -- UK listed housebuilders (composite)
Homepage ↗Equal-weighted composite of Persimmon, Barratt Redrow, Taylor Wimpey, Berkeley, Vistry. No free daily bulk feed; data editorially curated from public last-close quotes. Licence: individual issuer closing prices are public domain; the composite calculation is ours.
US EIA -- Europe Brent Spot Price (FOB)
Homepage ↗EIA Open Data API requires a registration key; the canonical daily series is also available as XLS which is not parseable from a Cloudflare Worker. Fixture-backed, refreshed weekly from the public HTML table. Licence: EIA data is U.S. public domain.
S&P Global -- UK Services PMI
Homepage ↗Headline Services PMI index. Press releases are public; the underlying series is licensed to S&P Global. We mirror only the monthly headline figure -- fair-dealing summary use.
GfK / NIESR -- Consumer Confidence Barometer
Homepage ↗Transferred from GfK to NIESR in 2025. Headline index published monthly as a press release; sub-indices are subscription-gated. Fixture-backed, headline-only.
RICS -- UK Residential Market Survey
Homepage ↗Monthly residential survey. Headline balances in each month's press release are public; the full back-set is subscription-gated. Fixture-backed with the headline net price balance.
Office for Budget Responsibility -- Economic & Fiscal Outlook
Homepage ↗ONS -- Public Sector Finances
Homepage ↗UK Debt Management Office
Homepage ↗ONS -- Labour Market Statistics
Homepage ↗ONS -- Real-Time Indicators
Homepage ↗Moneyfacts -- UK Mortgage Rates
Homepage ↗MHCLG / DLUHC -- Housing Statistics
Homepage ↗gov.uk -- Announcements RSS
Homepage ↗Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Homepage ↗Department for Business and Trade
Homepage ↗Institute for Fiscal Studies
Homepage ↗Contextual reference only.
Resolution Foundation
Homepage ↗Contextual reference only.
Institute for Government
Homepage ↗Contextual reference only.
Secondary references & further reading
These organisations publish analyses that inform the methodology, the editorial notes, and the timeline, but their outputs are not used as primary data inputs.
- Institute for Fiscal Studies — Green Budget, headroom analysis, tax-and-spend commentary.
- Resolution Foundation — living standards, labour market, household data.
- Institute for Government — delivery analysis, machinery-of-government context.