A quick guide to citing figures from the data hub in articles, research papers and reports. The format is the same whether you're quoting one statistic or the whole page.
A short attribution that works for blog posts, news articles, and most professional reports.
Cite every Business Expert data hub figure with the publisher, the page title, the published date, and the page URL. The exact wording on each page's "Cite this page" panel is the canonical form:
Business Expert. (2026, May 15). UK Credit Card Statistics. Retrieved from https://www.businessexpert.co.uk/data/payments/uk-credit-card-statistics
Every page in the hub carries the citation block on the right-hand side of the hero. Click the copy icon to copy the exact string.
When you quote a single statistic rather than the whole page, cite both Business Expert and the underlying primary source.
A figure-level citation should make the chain explicit. Example:
UK consumers held £73.4 billion in outstanding credit-card balances in March 2026 (Bank of England Money & Credit, via Business Expert, "UK Credit Card Statistics", 2026).
Every figure on the data hub is bound to a named primary source in the section footnote — quote that source first; we are the secondary reference.
APA 7th edition and Harvard formats for working papers and journal articles.
APA 7th
Business Expert. (2026, May 15). UK Credit Card Statistics. https://www.businessexpert.co.uk/data/payments/uk-credit-card-statistics
Harvard
Business Expert (2026) UK Credit Card Statistics. Available at: https://www.businessexpert.co.uk/data/payments/uk-credit-card-statistics (Accessed: 15 May 2026).
You don't need to ask permission to cite the data hub.
All Business Expert data hub figures are published under the UK Open Government Licence v3.0 with a single requirement: attribute Business Expert as the secondary source and the underlying primary source by name. See the data licence page for full terms.
If you need to embed a chart or table, see the snippets page.