{
  "dataset": "changes",
  "generated": "2026-08-27T16:32:30.784Z",
  "licence": {
    "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."
  },
  "docs": "https://tarifftracker.io/api/",
  "fields": "https://tarifftracker.io/api/v1/dictionary",
  "as_of": "2026-08-26",
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "Each row names and links its own source",
      "url": null
    }
  ],
  "caveats": [
    "announced is the day it was published. effective is the day it starts to cost anyone anything. They are often months apart and the second one is the one that matters.",
    "This is what we have found and checked. It is not a complete record of every change to every bill in the United Kingdom, and nothing here claims it is."
  ],
  "blanks": {
    "note": "There is nothing to add beyond the summary.",
    "source": "No single URL covers it. These should be rare and are worth reporting."
  },
  "count": 19,
  "rows": [
    {
      "id": "2026-03-06-watersure-reform",
      "announced": "2026-03-06",
      "effective": "2027-04-01",
      "vertical": "water",
      "severity": "relief",
      "actor": "Government",
      "title": "WaterSure reformed, about 300,000 households to benefit",
      "summary": "The income cap rises to £25,745 and eligibility extends to people receiving PIP, DLA or Attendance Allowance, bringing in about 53,000 more households. The medical practitioner's note is dropped for unlisted conditions and automatic enrolment replaces the application. A new single occupier cap is introduced. About 53,000 single households save an extra £100 and about 130,000 multi occupant households save around £26.",
      "note": null,
      "source": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/reduced-bills-for-around-300000-households-in-watersure-reform",
      "source_name": "gov.uk"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-08-26-energy-cap-october",
      "announced": "2026-08-26",
      "effective": "2026-10-01",
      "vertical": "energy",
      "severity": "increase",
      "actor": "Ofgem",
      "title": "Energy price cap rises 4% to £1,723 from October",
      "summary": "Announced at 07:00 this morning. The cap for 1 October to 31 December 2026 is £1,723 a year for a typical dual fuel direct debit household, up £60 from £1,663. Gas bills rise about 8%; electricity is broadly flat because VAT on domestic electricity is being cut from 5% to 0% at the same moment. Standard credit goes to £1,861 and prepayment to £1,678. About 35% of households are on fixed tariffs and are unaffected.",
      "note": "At least one tariff site is currently publishing £1,935 for this period. Ofgem's own press release and its summary of changes both say £1,723.",
      "source": "https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/press-release/energy-price-cap-will-rise-4-october-2026",
      "source_name": "Ofgem"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-08-19-ons-rents-july",
      "announced": "2026-08-19",
      "effective": "2026-08-19",
      "vertical": "rent",
      "severity": "increase",
      "actor": "ONS",
      "title": "Average UK rent reaches £1,393 a month",
      "summary": "Private rents rose 3.7% in the year to July 2026 to a UK average of £1,393 a month. London averages £2,317 and the North East £783, but the North East has the fastest rent inflation in England at 6.3%. House prices rose 2.0% to £272,000, while London house prices actually fell 2.5%.",
      "note": "Local Housing Allowance remains frozen at January 2024 rates, so every month of rent inflation widens the gap between what the benefit pays and what a tenancy costs.",
      "source": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/august2026",
      "source_name": "ONS"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-08-17-ofcom-social-tariffs",
      "announced": "2026-08-17",
      "effective": "2026-08-17",
      "vertical": "broadband-and-mobile",
      "severity": "relief",
      "actor": "Ofcom",
      "title": "Ofcom refreshes the broadband social tariff list",
      "summary": "Thirty three broadband tariffs and three mobile tariffs for people on means tested benefits, starting at £12 a month for 50Mb. Only 532,000 households are on one, and Ofcom's own research found 70% of eligible households do not know they exist.",
      "note": null,
      "source": "https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/saving-money/social-tariffs",
      "source_name": "Ofcom"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-08-03-abi-q2",
      "announced": "2026-08-03",
      "effective": "2026-08-03",
      "vertical": "insurance",
      "severity": "increase",
      "actor": "ABI",
      "title": "Motor premiums edge up to £566 as claims costs keep climbing",
      "summary": "The average motor premium paid rose £6 to £566 in Q2 2026, still down about £14 year on year in real terms. Claims told a different story: £3.2bn paid out, up 7% year on year, with the average claim at £4,900. On the home side premiums fell to £383 combined while the average payout passed £7,000 for the first time and subsidence hit a record £20,000.",
      "note": null,
      "source": "https://www.abi.org.uk/media-hub/news-post/record-32-billion-paid-out-to-support-motor-insurance-customers-in-q2-2026",
      "source_name": "ABI"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-06-29-mse-price-rises",
      "announced": "2026-06-29",
      "effective": "2026-06-29",
      "vertical": "broadband-and-mobile",
      "severity": "increase",
      "actor": "MoneySavingExpert",
      "title": "Three in four customers worse off under the pounds and pence rules",
      "summary": "An analysis of 47,000 tariffs covering April 2024 to March 2026 found 75% of customers are worse off than they would have been under the old inflation linked system, and 99% face above inflation rises. A low data mobile contract at £8 a month sees a 31% rise where the old rules would have given about 7.3%.",
      "note": "Ofcom has published no assessment of its own policy. The only two evaluations are from Citizens Advice and MoneySavingExpert, and both conclude it failed.",
      "source": "https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2026/06/mobile-broadband-price-hike-research/",
      "source_name": "MoneySavingExpert"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-05-01-renters-rights-act",
      "announced": "2026-05-01",
      "effective": "2026-05-01",
      "vertical": "rent",
      "severity": "relief",
      "actor": "Government",
      "title": "Section 21 abolished and rent rises capped to once a year",
      "summary": "The main provisions of the Renters' Rights Act came into force. No fault section 21 evictions and fixed term assured shorthold tenancies are abolished, and every existing tenancy became periodic with no end date. Rent can rise once a year to market rate only, on two months' notice. A tenant challenging an increase at the First-tier Tribunal can no longer be ordered to pay more than the landlord asked for, and increases are no longer backdated. Rent in advance beyond one month is banned, and so is rental bidding above the advertised price.",
      "note": null,
      "source": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guide-to-the-renters-rights-act/guide-to-the-renters-rights-act",
      "source_name": "MHCLG"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-04-01-tv-licence",
      "announced": "2026-04-01",
      "effective": "2026-04-01",
      "vertical": "tv-licence",
      "severity": "increase",
      "actor": "DCMS",
      "title": "TV licence rises £5.50 to £180",
      "summary": "The standard colour licence rose from £174.50 to £180 on 1 April 2026, an uplift of 3.14% under the CPI indexation in the 2022 licence fee settlement. Black and white stays available at £60.50. The blind concession is half price at £90, residential care is £7.50, and over 75s on Pension Credit pay nothing.",
      "note": "gov.uk states the uplift was 3.14% while TV Licensing's own page says 3.15%. We publish the government figure and flag the disagreement.",
      "source": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cost-of-tv-licence-fee-set-for-202627",
      "source_name": "gov.uk"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-04-01-nhs-dental",
      "announced": "2026-03-10",
      "effective": "2026-04-01",
      "vertical": "nhs-charges",
      "severity": "increase",
      "actor": "DHSC",
      "title": "Dental charges up 1.66% while prescriptions stay frozen",
      "summary": "NHS dental charges in England rose on 1 April 2026 to £27.90 for band 1, £76.60 for band 2 and £332.10 for band 3. The prescription charge was frozen at £9.90 for a second successive year, along with prepayment certificates at £32.05 for three months and £114.50 for twelve. Prescriptions remain free for everyone in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.",
      "note": null,
      "source": "https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2026-03-10/hcws1392",
      "source_name": "DHSC"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-01-30-lha-freeze",
      "announced": "2026-01-30",
      "effective": "2026-04-01",
      "vertical": "rent",
      "severity": "increase",
      "actor": "DWP",
      "title": "Local Housing Allowance frozen at January 2024 rates for another year",
      "summary": "The Rent Officers Modification Order 2026 fixes Local Housing Allowance for every broad rental market area in England, Wales and Scotland at the rates determined on 31 January 2024, for the whole of 2026/27. Rates were originally set at the 30th percentile of market rents at that date and are not being recalculated against current rents, which have risen 3.7% in the last year alone.",
      "note": null,
      "source": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/5/made",
      "source_name": "legislation.gov.uk"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-04-01-council-tax-2627",
      "announced": "2026-03-25",
      "effective": "2026-04-01",
      "vertical": "council-tax",
      "severity": "increase",
      "actor": "MHCLG",
      "title": "Average Band D council tax in England passes £2,392",
      "summary": "Up £111 or 4.9% on 2025/26, including parish precepts. Nine authorities were given permission to exceed the 5% referendum threshold, three of them up to 9%. No authority exceeded its own principle. The adult social care precept raised £688m, about £35 on a Band D bill. Dorset is highest at £2,765 and Wandsworth lowest at £1,028.",
      "note": null,
      "source": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/council-tax-levels-set-by-local-authorities-in-england-2026-to-2027/council-tax-levels-set-by-local-authorities-in-england-2026-to-2027",
      "source_name": "MHCLG"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-04-01-telecoms-rises",
      "announced": "2026-04-01",
      "effective": "2026-04-01",
      "vertical": "broadband-and-mobile",
      "severity": "increase",
      "actor": "Providers",
      "title": "The April round of mid contract rises lands, up to £4 a month",
      "summary": "BT, EE, Virgin Media and TalkTalk applied £4 a month to their newest contract cohorts. Vodafone took £3.50 on home broadband and £2.50 on mobile airtime, O2 £2.50, Sky £3 on broadband, Three between £1.80 and £2.30 depending on data allowance. On a £28 budget package a £4 rise is 14%, against CPI of 3.2%.",
      "note": "Sky is the outlier. It did not adopt fixed pounds and pence for existing customers, so a Sky customer signing today has no contractual certainty about what year two costs.",
      "source": "https://ee.co.uk/help/billing-payments/guide-to-bill/about-annual-prices-changes",
      "source_name": "EE"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-04-01-water-2627",
      "announced": "2026-01-29",
      "effective": "2026-04-01",
      "vertical": "water",
      "severity": "increase",
      "actor": "Water UK",
      "title": "Water bills rise £33 to an average of £639",
      "summary": "The average household bill in England and Wales for 2026/27 is £639, made up of £309 for water and £330 for sewerage, up 5.4%. Southern Water is dearest at £759 and Northumbrian cheapest at £535, a £224 spread for a service nobody can switch away from. Severn Trent took the largest rise among the big companies at 10%; Thames took 0.4%.",
      "note": null,
      "source": "https://www.water.org.uk/annual-average-bill-changes-2026-27",
      "source_name": "Water UK"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-03-18-coram-childcare",
      "announced": "2026-03-18",
      "effective": "2026-03-18",
      "vertical": "childcare",
      "severity": "relief",
      "actor": "Coram",
      "title": "Childcare costs fall sharply for families who qualify for funded hours",
      "summary": "Coram's Childcare Survey 2026 reports the cost of a full time under two nursery place in England fell 39% against 2025 for eligible families, following the completion of the 30 hour rollout in September 2025. A part time place for an eligible under two is now theoretically free during term time. Families who do not qualify still pay about £189 a week for the same part time place.",
      "note": "Coram's full time figures are net of the funded entitlement and its part time figures are not, which is why full time can appear cheaper than part time in the same table.",
      "source": "https://www.coram.org.uk/news/childcare-survey-2026/",
      "source_name": "Coram"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-03-10-cma-pr24",
      "announced": "2026-03-10",
      "effective": "2026-03-10",
      "vertical": "water",
      "severity": "increase",
      "actor": "CMA",
      "title": "Competition watchdog hands five water companies £463m more",
      "summary": "Anglian, Northumbrian, South East, Southern and Wessex disputed Ofwat's price review settlement. The CMA raised their allowed return from 4.03% to 4.20% and awarded £463m of additional revenue, about 17% of what they asked for. Expect roughly 2.2% on those customers' bills across the five year period. The five serve about seven million households.",
      "note": null,
      "source": "https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69afb3e2917847c0a4c89a23/PR24_Final_determinations_summary.pdf",
      "source_name": "CMA"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-03-02-rail-freeze",
      "announced": "2026-03-02",
      "effective": "2026-03-02",
      "vertical": "rail-fares",
      "severity": "relief",
      "actor": "DfT",
      "title": "Regulated rail fares frozen for the first time in thirty years",
      "summary": "Regulated fares in England were held at 0% from 2 March 2026 rather than rising 5.8% under the usual formula, which the Department for Transport says saves passengers £600m a year across more than a billion journeys. The freeze covers standard class season, anytime and off peak tickets and runs until March 2027. Scotland froze ScotRail fares for twelve months in February and Wales froze every Transport for Wales fare from 1 March.",
      "note": "Almost every rail figure on this site expires around March 2027, and the London bus fares expire sooner, on 1 November 2026.",
      "source": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/passengers-save-millions-as-rail-fare-freeze-starts",
      "source_name": "DfT"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-02-20-citizens-advice-telecoms",
      "announced": "2026-02-20",
      "effective": "2026-02-20",
      "vertical": "broadband-and-mobile",
      "severity": "increase",
      "actor": "Citizens Advice",
      "title": "Citizens Advice says Ofcom's price rise rules have failed",
      "summary": "Awareness of mid contract rises among people on new contracts rose only to 38% for mobile and 36% for broadband, from 30% and 29%. A £4 rise is about 11.1% on a typical bill against CPI of 3.2%, more than three times inflation, and it lands hardest on the cheapest packages. Citizens Advice is calling for mid contract rises to be banned outright.",
      "note": null,
      "source": "https://wearecitizensadvice.org.uk/ofcoms-new-rules-on-mid-contract-price-rises-have-failed-aec2238c0ae1",
      "source_name": "Citizens Advice"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-02-03-fca-premium-finance",
      "announced": "2026-02-03",
      "effective": "2026-02-03",
      "vertical": "insurance",
      "severity": "relief",
      "actor": "FCA",
      "title": "FCA declines to cap the cost of paying insurance monthly",
      "summary": "The premium finance market study found average APRs down 4.1 percentage points since 2022, saving consumers about £157m a year. The cost of paying monthly fell from £49 to £41 on motor and £18 to £15 on home. The FCA confirmed it will not impose a price cap and will not mandate interest free instalments, relying on fair value and Consumer Duty monitoring instead. Over 23 million policies are paid monthly.",
      "note": null,
      "source": "https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/falling-cost-premium-finance-saving-consumers-around-157m-year",
      "source_name": "FCA"
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-01-20-defra-white-paper",
      "announced": "2026-01-20",
      "effective": "2026-01-20",
      "vertical": "water",
      "severity": "relief",
      "actor": "Defra",
      "title": "White paper confirms no national water social tariff",
      "summary": "A New Vision for Water confirms support stays company by company, with an average £640m a year available for low income customers to 2030 and an industry commitment to address water poverty by that date. It also proposes abolishing Ofwat in favour of a single integrated regulator, with no date set. Campaigners at CCW and Independent Age continue to press for one national scheme.",
      "note": "Do not assume a national scheme exists. What you get depends entirely on which company happens to serve your postcode.",
      "source": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-new-vision-for-water-white-paper/a-new-vision-for-water",
      "source_name": "Defra"
    }
  ]
}