A letter from Rishi Sunak to Sir David Norgrove on the date of the government and UK Statistics Authority’s response to their joint consultation on reform to the Retail Prices Index

Published By GOV.UK [English], Mon, Nov 9, 2020 12:30 PM


Today, the Chancellor has written to the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) Board announcing that the Government and UKSA will publish their response to the consultation on reform to the Retail Prices Index (RPI) alongside the Spending Review on 25 November.

The consultation launched at Budget on 11 March. It was scheduled to close on 22 April, however, owing to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the consultation period was extended to 21 August.

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