UK Decline is an independent public-data project built to make official UK indicators easier to find, compare and revisit. It brings scattered releases into one place: dashboards, calculators, local lookups, maps and short source notes.
UK Decline is run as a one-person public-data site. Editorial decisions, page structure and final presentation are publisher-controlled.
The site focuses on public finance, welfare, health, migration, housing, regional pressure, business stress, failed projects and visible local decline.
Corrections and source questions can be sent to contact@ukdecline.co.uk.
Why the site exists
The UK publishes a large volume of official statistics. That is a strength, but the numbers are often split across spreadsheets, dashboards, PDFs, statistical bulletins, archive tables and department pages. A visitor who wants a simple answer can spend more time finding the source than understanding the signal.
UK Decline turns those releases into readable public pages. The aim is not to replace official sources. The aim is to make important figures easier to inspect, compare and remember, with links back to the underlying data wherever possible.
The site has a clear editorial angle: it tracks pressures that point to institutional, economic or local decline. That framing does not change the source requirement. Figures should remain traceable to named public datasets, documented calculations or clearly labelled estimates.
What makes it different
Most pages are not simple article summaries. They are small public-data tools: tax and benefit calculators, postcode checks, local-authority maps, business-stress rankings, PFI records, failed-project lists and dashboards that update as new releases arrive.
The useful part is the combination. A visitor can move from a national indicator to a local map, from a calculator to the source assumptions, or from a topical card to a related dataset. The site is designed around comparison: now versus then, place versus place, promise versus outcome, forecast versus official release.
UK Decline also keeps older public-finance stories visible. Some costs, contracts and failures disappear from the news cycle long before the public bill ends. Pages such as the PFI database and failed-project tracker are intended to preserve that memory in a source-backed format.
Sources and editorial standards
The site prioritises official and public-interest sources: ONS, OBR, Bank of England, DWP Stat-Xplore, NHS England, Home Office, HM Treasury, Companies House, Police.uk, Ministry of Justice, local-authority data and UK Parliament material. Some pages also use public registers, open datasets or named institutional publications.
Where a page uses a calculation, the source period, rate or assumption should be shown on the page or in the linked methodology. Where a value is an estimate, it should be labelled as an estimate. Where a dataset is incomplete, delayed or not directly comparable, the caveat should be visible to the reader.
The site avoids inventing private facts from aggregate data. Local-authority and postcode-district pages are guides to public signals, not claims about individual people, households, businesses or addresses.
Use of AI
AI is used as an engineering and research assistant: turning public releases into parsers, tests, dashboards, map layers and copy drafts. It is not treated as a source of statistical truth. Figures still need to come from named datasets, official releases, documented calculations or manually checked public records.
When AI helps build a page, the responsibility remains with the publisher. The page should still show the source, refresh date and caveats needed for a visitor to understand what is being displayed.
Corrections
If a figure, source link, label or caveat looks wrong, send the page URL, the figure in question, the official source you are comparing it with and the suggested correction to contact@ukdecline.co.uk.
Corrections are prioritised when they affect a published number, calculation, source period or claim. Design suggestions and feature requests are welcome, but factual corrections come first.