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  "generated": "2026-08-27T16:32:53.882Z",
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    "compilation": "CC BY 4.0",
    "compilation_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "attribution": "Tariff Tracker, tarifftracker.io, published by PEF Consulting Partners Limited",
    "underlying": "The figures themselves belong to the bodies named in each dataset's sources. Most are Crown copyright under the Open Government Licence v3. Supplier tariff rates belong to the suppliers who publish them. Check the source terms before you rely on any of it commercially.",
    "corrections": "If a figure here is wrong, say so and we will correct it and record that we did."
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    },
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    "A typical household is a statistical construction, not a real one. Every figure here is the average or the cap at typical use, and your own bill will differ.",
    "Two verticals carry no single typical figure, because no primary source publishes one. Rail fares and NHS charges have value null, and their label says what the display figure actually measures.",
    "Each vertical's own caveats travel with it. Call the detail_api address for the full account of where that figure could be wrong."
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    "value": "No primary source publishes a single typical household figure for this bill. Rail fares and NHS charges are both like this. The label says what the display figure actually measures, and inventing a household number for them would be making it up.",
    "period": "There is no value to attach a period to.",
    "unit": "The site prints no suffix after this figure, because it is not an amount of money over a period. Rail fares are a percentage and childcare is a count of hours."
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      "display": "£1,723",
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      "detail": "Dual fuel, direct debit, at typical consumption. Announced 07:00 on 26 August 2026.",
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      "change": "+£60 (+4%)",
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      "value": 639,
      "currency": "GBP",
      "period": "a year",
      "display": "£639",
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      "label": "Average household bill, England and Wales, 2026/27",
      "detail": "Water £309 plus sewerage £330. In force from 1 April 2026.",
      "direction": "up",
      "change": "+£33 (+5.4%)",
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      "detail": "The biggest mid contract rise applied in April 2026 was £4 a month. On a £28 budget package that is a 14% rise, against inflation of 3.2%.",
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      "change": "+£4/mth in April",
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      "unit": "/yr",
      "label": "Average Band D, England, 2026/27",
      "detail": "Including parish precepts. In force from 1 April 2026.",
      "direction": "up",
      "change": "+£111 (+4.9%)",
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      "display": "£1,393",
      "unit": "/mth",
      "label": "Average UK private rent, July 2026",
      "detail": "Up 3.7% over twelve months. England £1,451, Wales £843, Scotland £1,016, Northern Ireland £875.",
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      "detail": "Frozen from 2 March 2026, the first freeze in 30 years. Would have been 5.8% under the usual formula.",
      "direction": "down",
      "change": "Frozen, saving £600m a year",
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      "detail": "Frozen for a second year. It last rose on 1 May 2024. Free everywhere else in the UK.",
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      "unit": "/yr",
      "label": "Average motor premium paid, Q2 2026",
      "detail": "Across about 28 million private car policies a year. This is prices paid, not quotes.",
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