UK Data: UK statistics and Bank of England MCP Server

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UK Data: UK statistics and Bank of England is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

ONS statistics and time series (CPI, GDP, unemployment) and Bank of England rates

Uptime history 69 hours of history

69 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

133 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check UK Data: UK statistics and Bank of England every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add uk-statistics-money --transport http https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-statistics-money

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-statistics-money

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.uk-statistics-money]
url = "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-statistics-money"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uk-statistics-money": {
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-statistics-money"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "uk-statistics-money": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-statistics-money"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

ons

ons_search

Search ONS datasets, bulletins and time series. (cost: 1 credit)

ons_timeseries

Observations for an ONS time series by CDID, e.g. D7G7 CPIH annual rate, L55O CPIH index, MGSX unemployment rate, ABMI GDP. (cost: 1 credit)

boe

boe_series

Bank of England database series: Bank Rate (IUDBEDR, default), exchange rates (XUDLUSS), quoted mortgage rates (IUMBV34) and more. (cost: 1 credit)

fca

fca_search

Check whether a firm or person is authorised by the FCA (UK Financial Services Register): status, firm reference number (FRN), and warnings for clones and unauthorised businesses. Use before paying or dealing with a financial firm, adviser, lender or broker. (cost: 1 credit)

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/uk-statistics-money	streamable-http	answering	77 ms	9 min ago

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UK Data: UK statistics and Bank of England — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can UK Data: UK statistics and Bank of England do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: boe_series, fca_search, ons_search, ons_timeseries. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is UK Data: UK statistics and Bank of England working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 133 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect UK Data: UK statistics and Bank of England?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does UK Data: UK statistics and Bank of England need an API key?

No. UK Data: UK statistics and Bank of England completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is UK Data: UK statistics and Bank of England?

It answers our handshake in 133 ms on average, which is faster than 89% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.