{"metric":"hh_spend_restaurants_hotels","title":"Restaurants and hotels a week","topic":"economy","unit":"£ a week","measure_type":"estimate","geography":"K02000001","comparison_method":"previous_period","latest":{"period_start":"2024-04-01","period_end":"2025-03-31","period_label":"Year ending March 2025","value":49.2,"status":"final","vintage":"2026-06-11"},"comparison":{"period_label":"April 2022 to March 2025 (three-year average)","value":44.7,"vintage":"2026-06-11"},"source":{"publisher":"ONS","publication":"Family Spending workbooks: expenditure by income, region and household type (ONS)","landing_url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/expenditure/datasets/familyspendingworkbook2expenditurebyincome","sheet":"A4","table":"High level expenditure by gross income decile","row":"Restaurants & hotels","column":"All households","raw_value":"49.20","file_url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/expenditure/datasets/familyspendingworkbook2expenditurebyincome","file_sha256":"2c5d57c9b1afb97533105a83fbc0b92627154ccf62a8ef15fb483e1cb8aa2978","release_date":"2026-06-11","release_label":"FYE 2025, workbook 2 (by income)"},"definition":"Average weekly household expenditure on catering services including restaurant and takeaway meals, canteens and accommodation services (COICOP group 11), from the ONS Living Costs and Food Survey as published in Family Spending. The all-households figure is UK-wide for one financial year; income-decile and household-composition breakdowns are held on the same series, and regional figures are three-year averages stored against each region's code.","does_not_measure":"What any particular household spends: these are survey averages across households of very different sizes and incomes, sampled from about 5,000 households a year, and regional figures are averaged over three years because single-year samples are small.","links":{"page":"/economy/household-spending-restaurants-hotels","series":"/api/metrics/hh_spend_restaurants_hotels/series","vintages":"/api/metrics/hh_spend_restaurants_hotels/vintages"}}