Current Issue Note 43 In December 2014 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released provisional estimates of regional, sub-regional and local gross value added (GVA) for 2013 (although industry breakdowns of the data are for 2012) measured by the income approach. Also published in December 2014 were experimental results for regional real GVA as measured by the production approach for the...
The ONS will release the first data from the 2011 Census on Monday 16th July at 11am. The data will include an estimate of the number of males and females by single-year of age for England and Wales and and an estimate of the number of males and females by five-year age band for local authorities. The GLA’s Census Information Scheme...
Fuel poverty affects 560,000 households in London. In those households, people struggle to heat their homes adequately and as a result many thousands of people live in cold homes which put them at risk of serious ill-health, educational developmental delay in children, mental health problems and, for older people in particular, excess winter deaths. Fuel poverty is a specific type of...
Transport Museum Goes Digital for Thought Provoking Event Sense and The City Our friends in the London Transport Museum wanted us to flag this event. On Monday evening 17th October the digital arts organisation onedotzero will bring together artists and industry leaders from the worlds of art, architecture and advertising to showcase some imaginative digital interventions. And it’s all happening at...
This Saturday London Fire Brigade is set to hold the world’s first live Bonfire Night twitterthon (@LondonFire <http://twitter.com/londonfire> ). You may be wondering why; well, the answer is simple – we’re concerned that the number of fires could rocket this year due to Guy Fawkes night falling on a Saturday. The last time Bonfire Night fell on a weekend (November...
People living and working across the capital have fantastic ideas about how to transform their neighbourhoods through social enterprise, but often don’t know where to start when it comes to identifying the premises and support that they need. Where can I find a space to try out my idea? How can I meet and talk to other likeminded people? Where can...
During the process of creating and developing an online community of Creative Agencies, as we have recently at http://siliconjunction.co.uk/, we find ourselves frequently presented with new opportunities to better represent that community – often in ways we hadn’t previously anticipated. One of these opportunities is lobbying. Agencies have already found themselves lobbying for obvious desirables such as faster and more robust connectivity...
In one of the most significant new data releases of the year, London Buses have this week released live bus departure information for every stop in London on countdown.tfl.gov.uk. This is a beta service to test the system, and users should read the release notes for further details. This release follows the publication of public transport timetables last September and...
1 July 2011 – 31 March 2012 This summer a new exhibition about London opens at London Transport Museum – you could be part of it. Sense & the City explores the powerful new forces that are shaping the way we live, work and travel in the city. GPS, pervasive wireless, sensing, near field communication, multi touch surfaces, open data, smart phones...
The London Assembly has produced a new tool to help improve the availability of data on public toilets, and we would welcome your views. Over the past few months the Health and Public Services Committee has been investigating the provision of public toilets across the capital. We know that many Londoners – especially older people, parents with young children and those...
