The State of UK Fuel Prices is a monthly report on what fuel prices actually did — not what they were surveyed at, but how much each forecourt moved, where, and by how much. It is built from the price history we accumulate ourselves, which means it publishes itself as soon as that history can support it rather than on a launch date somebody picked.
The first edition is not ready yet
Publishing a month-on-month figure before there is a month behind it would mean inventing a statistic, so the report waits. Here is exactly where it stands:
- only 0 days of history so far (a month-on-month figure needs 45)
0 days of history 8074 forecourts 29725 recorded observations 6 fuels
A first edition needs 45 days of history, at least 300 forecourts and 2 fuels - enough for a month-on-month comparison that means something. Recording began 2026-09-23.
What the first edition will contain
- What each fuel opened and closed the month at, nationally, and by how much it moved.
- How many price changes were recorded, how many were rises and how many were cuts, and the typical size of a change.
- The biggest single moves, named by forecourt and town.
- The cheapest and dearest towns for standard unleaded, at the end of the month.
- How many of our own data checks flagged records we chose not to publish as prices.
Why it is built this way
We record a forecourt's price the first time we see it and again whenever it changes, which is what makes a "how much did prices move" figure possible at all: a level for any date is the price a forecourt had most recently reported at that point, not an estimate. The method, the scope and the caveats are printed in full with every edition - a report nobody can check is not worth citing.
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