Release

Consumer price inflation, UK: February 2021

Released: 24 March 2021 7:00am
Next release: 21 April 2021

Summary

Price indices, percentage changes and weights for the different measures of consumer price inflation.

Notice

Next month we will be publishing our larger time series dataset on a separate entry in the release calendar to the bulletin and accompanying datasets. We have had to separate these for technical reasons. This dataset will appear in the release calendar as Consumer price inflation UK: March 2021 time series.

Publications

Data

  • Consumer price inflation time series

    Comprehensive database of time series covering measures of inflation data for the UK including CPIH, CPI and RPI.

  • Consumer price inflation tables

    Measures of monthly UK inflation data including CPIH, CPI and RPI. These tables complement the consumer price inflation time series dataset.

  • Consumer price inflation detailed briefing note

    The consumer price inflation detailed briefing note contains details of the items contributing to the changes in the CPIH (and RPI), details of any notable movements, a summary of the reconciliation of CPIH and RPI, and the outlook, which looks ahead to next month’s release.

Contact details

Changes to this release date

  1. Previous date

    24 March 2021 9:30am

    Reason for change

    As the demand increases for statistics and data to measure the impact of the COVID19 pandemic, we have had to change data gathering and release practices, focusing efforts on priority analysis and statistics. As such we have re-scheduled this release. Please see our statement on how we are responding to the coronavirus illness. https://www.ons.gov.uk/news/statementsandletters/covid19andtheproductionofstatistics

  2. Previous date

    24 March 2021 7:30am

    Reason for change

    As the demand increases for statistics and data to measure the impact of the COVID19 pandemic, we have had to change data gathering and release practices, focusing efforts on priority analysis and statistics. As such we have re-scheduled this release. Please see our statement on how we are responding to the coronavirus illness. https://www.ons.gov.uk/news/statementsandletters/covid19andtheproductionofstatistics

About the data

Accredited Official Statistics

These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:

  • meet user needs
  • are presented clearly and accessibly
  • are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest