ONS Latest Figure for a UK Time Series (CPI, Unemployment, GDP and More)

ons/time-series-latest

The newest published figure of one Office for National Statistics time series (UK CPI and CPIH inflation, unemployment and employment rates, GDP growth, public finances, retail sales and more): the value, its unit, the period it covers, the release it came from, and the date of the next release. Find the series' uri with ONS Time Series Finder. The value is a string, and for labour-market figures that are three-month averages the period is named by the window's middle month (2026 JUN means May to July). The same series id can exist in several datasets with different vintages, and discontinued series still answer with their last figure: read the dataset, period and release date. A Beta service with no service-level guarantee. Attribution: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for National Statistics.

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Data source

Office for National Statistics

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for National Statistics. Served by Omnial; not an official Office for National Statistics product and not endorsed by it.

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// 1. search: find the tool
omnial_search({ query: "what you need" })

// 2. inspect: price and input schema
omnial_inspect({ tool: "ons/time-series-latest" })

// 3. learn: read the usage guide at runtime
omnial_learn({ tool: "ons/time-series-latest" })

// 4. run: price the exact call first, then run it
omnial_execute({ tool: "ons/time-series-latest", input: { /* see input_schema */ }, dry_run: true })
omnial_execute({ tool: "ons/time-series-latest", input: { /* ... */ } })

// 5. settle: the call is charged when it finishes, nothing to do

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Charge	Price
Per call	$0.0026

Updated: Oct 19, 2026

Input and output schemas

Input schema

input_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "uri"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "uri": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^/[a-z]+(/[a-z0-9]+){1,3}/timeseries/[a-z0-9]{3,6}/[a-z0-9]{2,10}$",
      "maxLength": 160,
      "description": "The series' page path as returned by ONS Time Series Finder, for example /economy/inflationandpriceindices/timeseries/d7g7/mm23 (CPI annual rate) or /employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotinwork/unemployment/timeseries/mgsx/lms (unemployment rate). Lower case, ending /timeseries/<series id>/<dataset>."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output schema

output_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "title",
    "cdid",
    "datasetId",
    "date",
    "number",
    "unit",
    "releaseDate",
    "nextRelease"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "cdid": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The series id, upper case. Not unique across datasets."
    },
    "date": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The period of the latest figure: 2026 AUG (month), 2026 Q2 (quarter) or 2026 (year). For a three-month average it names the MIDDLE month of the window."
    },
    "unit": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The unit of number: %, m, bn, million, Index, base year = 100, Parts per 1000, or empty (read title). May carry a trailing newline."
    },
    "title": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The series title, with its unit and seasonal-adjustment wording."
    },
    "number": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The latest figure as a decimal string, in unit. Never empty in the series sampled; parse it as a number."
    },
    "contact": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "The ONS team responsible: name, email and telephone.",
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "keyNote": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "A short qualifier such as Change over 12 months or UK: Aged 16 and over. Often absent; may have trailing whitespace."
    },
    "preUnit": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "A prefix for number, such as £ (with unit bn, 2985.5 is £2,985.5 billion). Empty on most series."
    },
    "datasetId": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The dataset the series belongs to, for example MM23 or LMS. The same cdid in another dataset is a different series."
    },
    "datasetUri": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The page path of the dataset the series is published in."
    },
    "nextRelease": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Free text: a date such as 21 October 2026, To be announced, empty, or This release is being discontinued."
    },
    "releaseDate": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "When this release was published, an ISO 8601 UTC instant. A UK-midnight summer release reads as 23:00 UTC the day before. This is the version read."
    },
    "monthLabelStyle": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Present as three month average when each monthly figure is the mean of a three-month window named by its middle month (the labour-market series)."
    }
  },
  "description": "The description block of the series: its title, series id, dataset, the latest period and value, and the release dates.",
  "additionalProperties": true
}