Disposable Income

(asked on 14th July 2026) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Livermore on 8 July (HL1794), what is the source of the data provided, including a direct link to where it is published; and what is the quarterly breakdown of the annualised data provided from Q1 2016 to Q1 2026.


Answered by
Lord Pitt-Watson Portrait
Lord Pitt-Watson
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 30th July 2026

Real household disposable income (RHDI) is reported by the ONS as part of the UK Economic Accounts, available here: UK Economic Accounts - Office for National Statistics. Due to quarterly volatility, RHDI per capita is best suited to annual comparisons. The previous response noted that RHDI per capita was £26,159 in 2019 (Q1 2019 to Q4 2019), compared to £26,187 in the year to Q1 2026 (Q2 2025 to Q1 2026).

The quarterly data is provided in the table below:

Quarter

RHDI per capita

Q1 2016

6,336

Q2 2016

6,340

Q3 2016

6,286

Q4 2016

6,235

Q1 2017

6,208

Q2 2017

6,347

Q3 2017

6,359

Q4 2017

6,381

Q1 2018

6,424

Q2 2018

6,374

Q3 2018

6,389

Q4 2018

6,475

Q1 2019

6,459

Q2 2019

6,542

Q3 2019

6,554

Q4 2019

6,604

Q1 2020

6,488

Q2 2020

6,368

Q3 2020

6,540

Q4 2020

6,562

Q1 2021

6,618

Q2 2021

6,634

Q3 2021

6,577

Q4 2021

6,449

Q1 2022

6,465

Q2 2022

6,311

Q3 2022

6,299

Q4 2022

6,386

Q1 2023

6,305

Q2 2023

6,363

Q3 2023

6,338

Q4 2023

6,356

Q1 2024

6,448

Q2 2024

6,455

Q3 2024

6,559

Q4 2024

6,649

Q1 2025

6,610

Q2 2025

6,562

Q3 2025

6,513

Q4 2025

6,584

Q1 2026

6,529

Notes on the data: RHDI per capita is calculated by dividing real household disposable income (ONS variable NRJR) by total population (ONS variable EBAQ).

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