Release

Balance of payments for the UK: Jan to Mar 2017

Released: 30 June 2017 9:30am
Next release: 29 September 2017

Summary

Quarterly data for trade in goods and services, income, current and capital transfers, transactions in UK external assets and liabilities, and levels of identified assets and liabilities are detailed within the current account.

Publications

Data

  • Balance of payments – revision triangles

    Quarterly summary information on the size and direction of the revisions made to the data covering a five-year period, UK.

  • Balance of payments

    Quarterly summary of balance of payments accounts including the current account, capital transfers, transactions, and levels of UK external assets and liabilities.

  • Balance of payments time series

    Quarterly summary of balance of payments accounts including the current account, capital transfers, transactions and levels of UK external assets and liabilities.

Contact details

Name

Richard McCrae

Email

bop@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 (0)1633 456106

About the data

Accredited Official Statistics

These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:

  • meet user needs
  • are presented clearly and accessibly
  • are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest

Pre-release access list

The phrase 'Pre-release Access' refers to the practice whereby official statistics in their final form, and any accompanying written commentary, are made available to an eligible person in advance of their publication. The rules and principles which govern pre-release access are featured within the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008.

Besides ONS staff, the following persons are given pre-release access by the period indicated before release.

| Access granted to | Organisation | Period | | :— | :— | :— | | Prime Minister | 10 Downing Street | 21 hours | | Private Secretary/ Economic Affairs - Prime Minister | 10 Downing Street | 21 hours | | PPS - Prime Minister | 10 Downing Street | 21 hours | | Special Advisor to the Prime Minister | 10 Downing Street | 21 hours | | Special Advisor to the Prime Minister | 10 Downing Street | 21 hours | | Chief of Staff | 10 Downing Street | 21 hours | | Deputy Chief of Staff | 10 Downing Street | 21 hours | | Duty Press Officer | 10 Downing Street | 21 hours | | Chancellor of the Exchequer | HM Treasury | 21 hours | | Chief Economic Advisor  | HM Treasury | 21 hours | | Chief Secretary to the Treasury | HM Treasury | 21 hours | | Duty Press Officer | HM Treasury | 21 hours | | Permanent Secretary to the Treasury | HM Treasury | 21 hours | | Special Advisors | HM Treasury | 21 hours | | Treasury Clearing Official | HM Treasury | 21 hours | | Treasury Official Preparing Briefing | HM Treasury | 21 hours | | Press Secretary to the Chancellor | HM Treasury | 21 hours | | Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor | HM Treasury | 21 hours | | Private Secretary to the Chancellor | HM Treasury | 21 hours | | Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury | HM Treasury | 21 hours | | Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service | Cabinet Office | 21 hours | | Private Secretary/Office of the Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service | Cabinet Office | 21 hours | | Private Secretary/Office of the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General | Cabinet Office | 21 hours | | Secretary of State | Department for International Trade | 21 hours | | Minister for Trade Policy | Department for International Trade | 21 hours | | Minister for Trade and Investment | Department for International Trade | 21 hours | | Parliamentary Under Secretary of State | Department for International Trade | 21 hours | | Special Advisor | Department for International Trade | 21 hours | | Special Advisor | Department for International Trade | 21 hours | | Permanent Secretary | Department for International Trade | 21 hours | | Press Officer | Department for International Trade | 21 hours | | G7 Statistician | Department for International Trade | 21 hours | | Senior Statistical Officer | Department for International Trade | 21 hours |