Late data from one business means UK wage growth may need to be revised, says ONS

Caveat from statistics agency is latest sign of its problems collecting reliable economic data

Britain's main measure of wage growth may need to be revised after a large employer failed to supply earnings data on time, the troubled Office for National Statistics has warned.

In the latest sign of the ONS's problems with collecting reliable economic figures, which the government uses in economic policymaking, the agency issued a caveat alongside March's average weekly earnings data that as an exception" it was working on opening up revisions further back in time" for the figures.