Statistics Wales quarterly update: June 2026

This is the latest in a series of quarterly updates, for users of Welsh statistics, on our latest developments, consultations, and plans.

A full list of our most recent publications can be found on our upcoming calendar.

We recently ran a 12-week consultation on statistical outputs, from 19 November 2025 to 11 February 2026. The consultation was published on our website and included questions relating to a range of proposals across stats topics. A total of 59 responses were received to the main consultation. All responses have been analysed and taken into account and presented in the summary of responses. 

Responses emphasised the importance of clear signposting to statistics produced by organisations other than the Welsh Government. We will support users by publishing a guide to where to find statistics about Wales. We will also work with other statistics producers across the UK to ensure they understand Welsh user needs and use this information to improve their statistical reports.

As we implement the changes based on consultation responses, we are also taking steps to space out publications more evenly across each month to support capacity and improve the user experience. As a general approach, annual and one-off releases will be published in the first half of the month, and monthly or quarterly releases in the second half, with exceptions where necessary. 

We will continue to adapt our statistical outputs in response to user feedback, ensuring that our approach remains relevant and useful. Looking ahead, we will also consider how best to serve the priority statistical needs of the next government, balancing evolving requirements with available resources.

Over the last quarter, our focus for StatsWales has been on delivering targeted improvements to the service, while putting stronger foundations in place for future planning. We have continued to refine usability, accessibility, and consistency across the platform, responding directly to publisher and user feedback to reduce friction in workflows wherever possible.

We have released enhancements to the consumer‑facing website that allow users to create their own tables and apply improved filtering, giving them greater control over how they explore StatsWales data.

Alongside this, we have shifted emphasis towards more structured discovery and roadmap planning. We are preparing to run focused engagement sessions to clearly identify what is working well, what is not, and where there is uncertainty. This evidence‑led approach will give us a clearer view of priorities and will directly inform a user‑centred roadmap for the next phase of StatsWales.

If you would like to get in touch, please contact statswales@gov.wales

Economy

The role of the Welsh Economic Statistics User Group is to engage with and advise Welsh Government analysts on strategic priorities and the work plan for economic statistics in Wales. Past agenda items and presentations, as well as the terms of reference can be found online. The next meeting will be held on 20 October 2026. We are eager to extend membership of this group to a wider audience. If you would be interested in joining this group, which meets twice a year (either hybrid or online), please contact KASevents@gov.wales. 

In April, we published our Short-term output indicators: October to December 2025 which shows the short term movements in the output of industries in the production, construction and market services sectors. We also explained our plans to publish one more quarter of STOI data in July 2026. This is because the Office for National Statistics (ONS) plan to publish a data article containing updated quarterly regional GDP estimates in the summer, which will be the next stage in their plans to fully re-introduce quarterly regional GDP in 2027. In May, we published our Food and drink annual exports in goods: 2025 and, in June, we will publish our Food and drink economic appraisal: 2025.

If you would like to get in touch, please contact economic.stats@gov.wales

Labour market

The ONS have highlighted that the challenges with maintaining response rates for the Labour Force Survey (LFS) continue to affect data quality. As a result LFS-based labour market statistics are labelled as official statistics in development (Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR)) until further review and we continue to recommend caution when interpreting this data. 

The latest updates from the ONS on the quality of the Labour Force Survey and the planned improvements for economic statistics, both published in April 2026, include information on the actions ONS have been and continue to take to improve the quality of the LFS and labour market statistics. For further information on the interventions ONS have made to improve the quality of LFS and APS labour market estimates and our advice on using these statistics for Wales, please see the latest Chief Statistician’s update: measuring the labour market in Wales (Digital and Data blog) which was also updated in April 2026.

We continue to publish our monthly labour market overview release, which brings together a range of different labour market sources. We recommend using the LFS data alongside the trends in these other measures of the labour market to gain a clearer picture of the impact different events have on the Welsh labour market.

In April we published our Annual Population Survey (APS) labour market statistics data for 2025 which includes data for UK countries and regions and also for local areas.

Other outputs published in April included the quarterly update on young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) which covers data for 2025 and provides more detailed and timely statistics on young people (those aged 16 to 24) who are NEET in Wales.

The latest update to the Levels of highest qualification held by working age adults release was also published, covering data for 2025. This release presents statistics on the highest qualification held by adults of working age in Wales and provides some breakdowns at local authority level.

Estimates based on the APS were previously classed as accredited official statistics. The APS has seen a fall in sample sizes over recent years, given this and the fact that the survey has not been reweighted to latest population estimates this accreditation has been temporarily suspended and the estimates are currently designated as official statistics (OSR). It is still appropriate to use these statistics, however users should note the increased uncertainty around estimates derived from the APS. 

In May, we published Commuting in Wales: 2025 data on StatsWales which shows commuting flows from areas in Wales to other areas (both in and out of Wales) and also published the latest data on Pay differences by disability and ethnicity for 2025 which provides estimates of the median hourly pay and the pay difference between hourly earnings of employees in Wales by disability status and by ethnicity

If you would like to get in touch, please contact labourmarket.stats@gov.wales 

Trade Survey for Wales

The analysis of Trade Survey for Wales 2022 is available online. 

Preparation work for fieldwork to collect 2025 data is underway following the completion of a six-week pilot survey in April 2026. Fieldwork is due to take place from September to December 2026 with final datafiles and outputs presented by the contractor due in March 2027. 

For further information contact: stats.trade@gov.wales

Welsh International Goods Trade

Results from HMRC Regional Trade Statistics (RTS) for 2025 were published 19th March 2026, with the next quarter’s data due to be published on 11th June 2026. 

HMRC pre-announced significant unscheduled corrections to UK overseas trade in goods statistics (OTS) in November 2025, specifically affecting ‘Oil’ (SITC 33) and ‘Gas’ (SITC 34) exports. These revisions have now been applied to OTS and RTS. 

In our recent consultation on statistical outputs, we proposed to cease publishing the annual Welsh international goods trade report (but continue with the short quarterly summary of main points for Wales). This proposal was supported by users, as noted in the summary of responses. We have therefore ceased the publication of the annual release with immediate effect. Users can continue to access the most accurate and timely data (which incorporates all revisions) through the quarterly headlines and our interactive dashboard.

For further information contact: stats.trade@gov.wales.

Supply and Use Tables and Input Output Tables

Supply-use and input-output tables for 2019 were published as official statistics in development on 11 March 2025. The 2022 supply, use and input-output tables will be published in July 2026, together with updated economic multipliers.

If you are interested in using these tables for your own research and would like advice on their application, please get in touch.

For further information contact: InputOutputTables@gov.wales 

Schools

Attendance data

We continued to publish fortnightly data on pupils’ attendance in maintained schools throughout the spring term. From 4 May 2026 this release will be published monthly on the first Tuesday of every month and ending in August 2026. Publication will start again in the new school year in September 2026.

Counselling for children and young people: September 2024 to August 2025 was published on 25 March 2026.

Upcoming statistical releases

An update of the statistical release on Patterns of attainment in reading and numeracy will be published on 25 June 2026.

Results from the School Census in January 2026 will be published on 1 August 2026 and for Pupils educated other than at school January 2026 later in August 2026.

If you have any questions or would like to provide feedback, you can contact us on school.stats@gov.wales

Higher education and student finance

We published our annual releases on Welsh Government Learning Grants (further education) and Initial teacher education. 

To provide feedback, or for any further information, please contact highereducationandstudentfinance.stats@gov.wales

Improving Homelessness Data Collection in Wales

Currently, homelessness data in Wales is gathered through aggregate returns from local authorities, providing information on households applying for housing assistance and the outcomes of those applications. Work continues to transition to a new data collection approach that will capture individual-level data on homelessness applicants. We believe this shift will significantly enhance our understanding of homelessness in Wales and ultimately support efforts to improve outcomes for vulnerable individuals.

Following the conclusion of a data pilot that took place at the end of 2025 with a small selection of local authorities, it was agreed that the new data collection would not fully ‘go-live’ from the original April 2026 launch date. Instead, we will continue to pilot the new collection in phased stages between April 2026 and April 2027. This will give time to improve data quality, complete General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements, and further develop systems.

Estimates of additional housing need 

OSR has released their Compliance review of Estimates of additional housing need (OSR),  following the latest publication of Estimates of additional housing need in February.

Using administrative data for new housing supply statistics

In our recent publication, Feasibility of using administrative data to measure new housing supply, we have explored how alternative sources of data could be used to enhance and quality assure our existing New house building statistics. We welcome any user views on this work and how it may support understanding of new housing supply.

Housing publications

Help to Buy - Wales (Shared Equity Loan Scheme): October to December 2025 (published 5 March 2026)

Homelessness accommodation provision and rough sleeping: January 2026 (published 26 March 2026)

Homelessness accommodation provision and rough sleeping: February 2026 (published 30 April 2026)

Homelessness: April to September 2025 (published 2 April 2026)

Assistance for housing improvement: April 2024 to March 2025 (published 14 May 2026)

Housing hazards: April 2024 to March 2025 (published 14 May 2026)

Houses in multiple occupation (HMO) licensing: as at 31 March 2025 (published 14 May 2026)

Housing demolitions: April 2024 to March 2025 (published 14 May 2026)

Please contact us via the stats.housing@gov.wales mailbox with any queries or requests.

Hospital statistics

This quarter we updated the monthly NHS activity and performance summary. We also updated our quarterly output on a deep dive of NHS performance for each Welsh Local Health Board.

Mental health

This quarter we published an update to the Mental health statistics: interactive dashboard. There were also updates to other quarterly mental health statistics relating to Detentions under Section 135 and 136 of the Mental Health Act and the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010.

Primary care and community health

This quarter we published the first statistical release for general practice workforce, based on the new Primary Care Workforce Intelligence System (PCWIS). We also published updates to primary care statistics on general practice activity and NHS dental services and community health statistics on the Healthy Child Wales Programme and breastfeeding.

NHS workforce and expenditure

This quarter saw an update to our quarterly data on Staff directly employed by the NHS, Sickness absence in the NHS and NHS vacancy statistics, as a single compendium release, NHS workforce: staff directly employed by NHS Wales.

Other health and social services statistics

This quarter has also seen regular updates to a range of other health and social services statistics including; Eye care measures and Smoking cessation services. As well as an update to the annual data on Social services activity, which provides information on the activity of local authority social services. Also published for the first time is Social services capacity and demand data, which provides monthly data from March 2024 on the Number of contacts and completed assessments by adult services (StatsWales) and the Number of adults receiving services provided by adult services (StatsWales). 

All our statistical releases are available on the Statistics and research website and more detailed underlying data is available on the health and social care area of StatsWales. 

For further information or to get in touch please email stats.healthinfo@gov.wales

Active Travel

In March 2026 we published the Active Travel statistical bulletin. This bulletin explores the characteristics of people who are more likely to walk or cycle as a means of transport, or whose children are more likely to walk or cycle to school. 

Armed Forces

We also published the Armed Forces bulletin in April 2026. This bulletin looks at the characteristics of armed forces veterans in Wales, and families of those who are/have served in the armed forces.

Please contact us at surveys@gov.wales if you have any questions.

Poverty and cost of living

On 26 March 2026 we published updates to annual data summaries for Wales on relative income poverty and persistent poverty, with latest data relating to financial year ending 2025. On the same day, the DWP published their updated suite of UK level data on income poverty and material deprivation (DWP), persistent poverty (DWP), family resources (DWP), and an update to their children in low income families local area statistics (DWP). This included a number of developments and some revisions to recent years of data (back to financial year ending 2022), as described in our recent blog (Digital and Data Blog).

On 28 May 2026 we will publish an update to Discretionary Assistance Fund statistics, with breakdowns by age and local authority. 

Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD)

We’ve recently published some new WIMD StatsWales tables (StatsWales), including deprivation profiles for Public Services Boards, UK parliamentary constituencies and rural urban classifications, as well as an indicator data table specifically for local authorities and Wales. 

Our WIMD publications list catalogues everything we have published and what’s to come. 

Contact us by emailing stats.inclusion@gov.wales if you would like to join our subscriber list for notifications of new releases, or are interested in registering for WIMD 2025 information sessions over the summer.

Fire

On 16 April, we published a refreshed Grassland, woodland and crop fires statistical bulletin analysing trends for the financial year 2024 to 2025. We welcome feedback on this new format - please contact stats.inclusion@gov.wales.

We have also updated our fires by month StatsWales datasets with the first six months of the financial year 2025 to 2026:

• Fires by category, month, location type, motive, Fire and Rescue Authority area and financial year (StatsWales)
• Grassland, woodland and crop fires by category, month, location type, motive, Fire and Rescue Area and financial year (StatsWales)

In June, we will publish our Police recorded road collisions and casualties: 2025 and update our interactive dashboard, including breakdowns such as severity of injury, type of road user and collision location on a map. In June, we will publish our Air transport: 2025 release which has been shortened following the outcome of the Consultation on proposed changes to Welsh Government statistics outputs. We welcome feedback on this new format. 

If you would like to get in touch, please contact stats.transport@gov.wales 

Transport for Wales update

On 23 April, Transport for Wales published headline data from the first six months data collection from the Wales National Travel Survey (March to August 2025).

We have published the following three analysis reports, along with accompanying data tables: 

• Travel Attitudes
• Travel Behaviours
• Factors that would encourage modal shift to sustainable travel modes

The published data includes:

• Main mode share and multimodal journeys
• Average distance travelled
• Journey purposes
• Satisfaction by transport modes
• Factors that would encourage use/further use of certain modes of transport

12-month data will be published in Autumn 2026, with data being published annually in the Autumn thereafter.

If you have any further questions, please contact us at travelsurvey@tfw.wales.

Welsh language data from the Annual Population Survey: 2025 was published on 22 April. We also updated our StatsWales tables (Annual Population Survey: Welsh language).

A statistical article presenting the findings of a short survey on the data needs of users in relation to the Welsh language outside Wales was also published on 22 April. This sits within a joint Welsh Government and the ONS workplan to improve understanding of Welsh language statistics.

If you have any feedback or would like further information about any aspect of our work, please email: welshlanguagedata@gov.wales.

Total Income from Farming: 2025 

Information on agricultural output, Gross Value Added from agriculture and Total Income From Farming for 2025. If you have any feedback or would like further information about any aspect of our work, please email: stats.agric@gov.wales

Bovine Tuberculosis 

On 11 March we produced the updated Bovine TB Dashboard (quarterly disease surveillance data, with historical trends and filters, including the number of new and open incidents, herd prevalence, and recurrence for cattle in Wales up to Q3 2025.

On 18 March we published headline data covering the Incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in cattle in Wales up to December 2025.

If you have any feedback or would like further information about any aspect of our work, please email: stats.agric@gov.wales

Fly-tipping

On 24 February we published Local authority recorded fly-tipping: April 2024 to March 2025. We also updated our StatsWales tables on fly-tipping. 

If you have any feedback or would like further information about any aspect of our work, please email: stats.environment@gov.wales

Local Authority Municipal Waste Management

We haven't yet published quarterly waste statistics for 2025 to 2026 due to an ongoing review of future arrangements for the reporting of wood recycling. Local authority municipal waste management: April 2025 to March 2026 hasn’t been preannounced for the same reason.

In March, we published Council tax levels in Wales. 

If you have feedback or would like further information, please email: stats.finance@gov.wales

For further information or to get in touch please email stats.popcensus@gov.wales.

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