UK ONS Trade — International Trade & Business Activity MCP Server
UK trade and business statistics: trade in goods by country and commodity (imports, exports, balance), business counts by industry and geography from the IDBR register, and experimental traffic camera activity indicators from the ONS.
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What is the UK ONS MCP Server?
The UK ONS MCP Server gives AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor direct access to UK ONS via 3 tools. UK trade and business statistics: trade in goods by country and commodity (imports, exports, balance), business counts by industry and geography from the IDBR register, and experimental traffic camera activity indicators from the ONS. Powered by the Vinkius - no API keys, no infrastructure, connect in under 2 minutes.
Built-in capabilities (3)
Tools for your AI Agents to operate UK ONS
Ask your AI agent "What are UK trade figures with the EU?" and get the answer without opening a single dashboard. With 3 tools connected to real UK ONS data, your agents reason over live information, cross-reference it with other MCP servers, and deliver insights you would spend hours assembling manually.
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible client. Powered by the Vinkius - your credentials never touch the AI model, every request is auditable. Connect in under two minutes.
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UK ONS Trade — International Trade & Business Activity MCP Server capabilities
3 toolsDataset: uk-business-by-enterprises-and-local-units. Source: Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR). Get UK business counts by enterprises and local units, by industry and geography
Dataset: trade. Monthly data on UK trade in goods: imports, exports, trade balance by partner country and commodity. Non-seasonally adjusted. Values in £ million. Get UK trade in goods data — country by commodity, imports and exports
Dataset: traffic-camera-activity. Used as a real-time indicator to understand economic activity and social change. Get UK traffic camera activity — experimental economic indicator
What the UK ONS Trade — International Trade & Business Activity MCP Server unlocks
UK trade and business data.
What you can do
- Trade — Imports/exports by country and commodity
- Business Counts — Enterprises by industry and region
- Traffic Activity — Experimental real-time indicator
Frequently asked questions about the UK ONS Trade — International Trade & Business Activity MCP Server
What is the IDBR?
The Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) is a comprehensive list of UK businesses used for all government statistical surveys. It covers 2.7 million+ live enterprises across all sectors.
Does this cover both goods and services?
Currently, the primary datasets focus extensively on the trade in goods by commodity and country. Trade in services data is also available but categorized separately in larger macroeconomic releases.
What kind of traffic activity data is available?
The ONS provides experimental real-time indicators compiled from traffic camera activity, which measure vehicle counts and traffic movement as a proxy for economic and supply chain activity.
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