Written question asked by Lord McCabe (Labour) on Wednesday, 5 June 2013, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 10 June 2013. It was answered by Sajid Javid (Conservative) on Monday, 10 June 2013 on behalf of the Treasury.

Inflation

Question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what changes there were in (a) the retail prices index, (b) the consumer prices index, (c) fuel prices and (d) food prices in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 and (iv) 2013 to date.

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Answer

The statistics are shown in the following table. Data on changes in prices are available to download from the website of the Office for National Statistics:

www.ons.gov.uk

	Annual rate, percentage
	2010	2011	2012	20131
Retail Prices Index (RPI)	4.6	5.2	3.2	3.2
Consumer Prices Index (CPI)	3.3	4.5	2.8	2.7
Food prices (CPI)	3.0	5.0	3.1	4.4
Motor fuel prices (CPI)	16.7	14.7	2.0	-0.9
1 Average to date.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 158334; 564 c33W
Session: 2013-14
Subjects: Inflation
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk

Inflation

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