Written Question·Treasury·UIN 268

Pay and Pensions

Tabled: 17 July 2024
Answered: 24 July 2024

Question

Laurence Turner

LabourBirmingham Northfield

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed alignment of the Retail Prices Index methodology with the Consumer Prices Index, including owner occupier housing costs from February 2030 on (a

Answer

Tulip Siddiq
The alignment of the methods and data sources of the Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs into the Retail Price Index (RPI) reflects the flaws in RPI which can either overstate or understates price changes. The Bank of England wi...

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