Inflation

01 September 2025

Household cost indices for UK household groups April to June 2025
A different measure of price rises from the Office for National Statistics

27 August 2025

Utility bills
Ofgem has announced the new quarterly utility price cap, effective from October 2025. The CPI mathematics mean that small price rise will have downward impact on annual inflation.

22 August 2025

Further thoughts on the July inflation numbers
Some interesting pointers around the July inflation numbers

20 August 2025

July inflation numbers
The UK CPI inflation rate for July 2025, which was 3.8%, up 0.2% on June

16 July 2025

June inflation numbers
The UK CPI inflation rate for June 2025, which was 3.6%, up 0.2% on May

18 June 2025

May inflation numbers
The UK CPI inflation rate for May 2025, which was 3.4%, arguably unchanged from April

04 June 2025

Household cost indices for UK household groups January to March 2025
A different measure of price rises from the Office for National Statistics

23 May 2025

Utility bills
Ofgem’s new quarterly utility price cap from July 2025. The fall is the first since July 2024, but will have minimal impact on annual inflation

21 May 2025

April inflation numbers
The UK CPI inflation rate for April 2025, which was 3.5%, 0.9% up from March and higher than markets and the Bank of England had anticipated

16 April 2025

Consumer Prices Index & Retail Prices Index and the resultant percentage changes
Consumer Prices Index & Retail Prices Index figures since January 2000

16 April 2025

March inflation numbers
The UK CPI inflation rate for March 2025, which was 2.6%, 0.2% down from February

26 March 2025

February inflation numbers
The UK CPI inflation rate for February 2025, which was 2.8%, 0.2% down from January

19 March 2025

Basket and weights updating
The UK inflation ‘shopping baskets’, which have been revised for 2025 and the weightings adjusted once again