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New on UK Decline: Birth Statistics Page.
Explore births, fertility and parents’ birthplace across England & Wales.
Compare areas, follow trends and share your local figures.
Also imported to the regional decline map as a new overlay.
Full list of changes:
• New Birth Statistics page
• Local area comparisons & share graphics
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• Updated regional data & automatic refresh fixes
The Benin Trust is a charity with £62,580 income.
In 2025 it assigned at least 90 sponsorship certificates for unpaid youth and community worker roles.
Charity Commission (to Oct 2025):
4 trustees
26 volunteers
How did they get 90 Certificates?
It is no longer on the sponsor register.
Now three days in a row over £30m spend in balancing the grid.
Surely this is not sustainable?
📊 Shoplifting offences recorded by police, England and Wales, year to March:
2015: 326,053
2016: 337,246
2017: 370,289
2018: 382,564
2019: 374,755
2020: 359,559
2021: 228,106
2022: 275,079
2023: 342,371
2024: 444,132
2025: 530,348
Up 63% in ten years.
📌 ONS, Table A5a
🌧️Good Morning🇬🇧
Great Britain retail sales volumes fell 0.4% in September 2026, following a 0.7% rise in August.
But volumes were still 0.8% higher than a year earlier, and rose 0.7% across July–September compared with the previous quarter.
📌ONS
People granted / refused at initial decision, year to June 2026:
🇵🇰 Pakistan: 2,859 / 9,594
🇪🇷 Eritrea: 7,529 / 1,389
🇮🇷 Iran: 4,752 / 3,320
🇸🇩 Sudan: 6,115 / 538
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 3,416 / 5,359
🇧🇩 Bangladesh: 822 / 7,835
🇸🇴 Somalia: 1,610 / 2,611
🇮🇳 India: 30 / 4,066
📌 Home Office, Asy_00b
Surrey County Council’s payment records show £86.59m recorded against SEN/SEND departments for ten identified transport supplier labels over five years, 2021/22–2025/26.
Courtesy Cars Redhill: £19.49m
Xpert Cars Ltd: £12.71m
Camberley Taxis: £9.68m
These are published payment labels, not confirmed legal company totals or Surrey’s total SEND taxi bill.
📌 Surrey County Council supplier-payment files
Over £30m two days in a row provisionally to balance the grid.
Absolutely insane.
£34.47m in provisional net payments to balance Great Britain's electricity grid on 25 Oct 2026.
Payments to adjust electricity supply and demand.
Elexon Balancing Mechanism data; may be revised. Other balancing costs excluded.
ukgridlive.co.uk/balancing-c…
📊 People claiming asylum (incl. dependants), year to June 2026 (provisional):
🇵🇰 Pakistan: 8,305
🇪🇷 Eritrea: 6,952
🇮🇷 Iran: 6,705
🇸🇩 Sudan: 5,992
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 5,952
🇧🇩 Bangladesh: 5,769
🇸🇴 Somalia: 4,983
🇮🇳 India: 4,964
Total: 85,891
📌 Home Office, Asy_01b
🌧️Good Morning🇬🇧
Personal insolvencies in England and Wales totalled 126,278 in calendar year 2025, up 8,324 (7.1%) from 117,954 in 2024.
This is the sum of monthly individual-insolvency counts for January to December, not a rate or financial-year measure.
Source: UK Government Individual Insolvency Statistics.
HMRC's tax debt fell from 5.6% of tax receipts in 2022-23 to 4.7% in 2025-26, the NAO reports.
But 8.2 million taxpayers still owed £43.8bn at the end of 2025-26, and HMRC does not expect to reach the former minister's 2.5% target until after 2030-31.
📌 National Audit Office
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The Environment Agency reported £2.263bn gross expenditure and 13,419 average FTE staff in 2025/26.
Yet the official watchdog found it committed a “serious failure to comply with environmental law” over sewage overflows.
This is what taxpayers are funding. 🧵
The EA does essential work, and gross expenditure is not the same as waste.
But this is a £2.263bn body with 13,419 average FTE, an official serious environmental-law failure and a flood-delivery forecast cut by 40%.
Taxpayers are entitled to ask: is this value for money?
Sources:
EA accounts 2025/26:
gov.uk/government/publicatio…
OEP decision:
theoep.org.uk/sites/default/…
NAO flooding report:
nao.org.uk/reports/resilienc…
