The edition of 29 August 2026
Nothing notable published today.
We would rather send you this than manufacture significance.
Saturday, and nothing was due: the publishers do not release at weekends, no dataset is in a release window this late in the month, and the one item on today's statistics calendar — Northern Ireland Civil Service employment figures from NISRA — is not a series we cover. So nothing was fetched, and there was nothing to compare. The quiet stretch ends with the September releases: the first scheduled fetch is the Met Office station data when its window opens at the start of next week.
Two standing gaps, for the record. MHCLG's new temporary accommodation figures, published on 20 August in a changed file format, still await a human reading before our software will parse them; until then the homelessness series ends at the quarter we already hold. And the August prison bulletin never appeared in the Ministry of Justice's usual window, so we watch the announcements calendar for it. September will be the test of both: the prison window reopens on the 8th, and the temporary accommodation file needs a human before then.