LONDON (Reuters) -Upcoming changes in the way Britain calculates the country’s inflation rate would have produced slightly lower headline figures for the year to June 2024, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed on Tuesday.
Annual consumer price inflation would have averaged 0.28 percentage points less per month versus the reported data in the year to June 2024, if the figures had used grocery scanner data – slated for introduction in February 2026 – on top of other improvements introduced this year, according to Reuters calculations.
The ONS said existing inflation data will not be revised.
(Reporting by Andy Bruce and Suban Abdulla; editing by Sarah Young)
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