Dataset Consumer price inflation tables

Correction

17 December 2025

The Office for National Statistics has been carrying out a routine review of centrally collected prices data, as part of the ongoing work to improve and automate the production system that underpins consumer price inflation.

As part of this work a minor error, caused by an issue with manual data entry, has been identified in the consumer price inflation item for “package holidays”. This error has no impact on the published headline rate of inflation for the Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs (CPIH), the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) or the Retail Prices Index (RPI).

The error is isolated to package holidays and would have led to the recreation and culture division annual inflation rate being 0.1 percentage points lower in May 2025 for both CPIH and CPI.

In line with our consumer prices revisions and corrections policy, these statistics will not be amended.

A table that provides the impact of the error on the lower-level aggregates is available in Impact of late booked holidays error on consumer price inflation.

We have introduced additional checks and automated processes to prevent a reoccurrence of this error and will continue to review our production systems as part of our commitment to continually improve our statistics. We apologise for this error.

About this Dataset

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

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Important notes and usage information

Making our published spreadsheets accessible

We have published sample versions of a selection of consumer price inflation tables prepared following the GSS guidance on releasing statistics in spreadsheets. It is essential that we aim to improve the usability, accessibility and machine readability of our published statistics so that everyone can make use of them.

We have published these one-off sample tables to help communicate the changes we will be making to the consumer price inflation tables over the coming months. When we change over to the new format, there will be a period where we will publish the tables in both the new and the current formats, along with a mapper to help users find the information they require in the new format tables. If you have any questions or comments, please email cpi@ons.gov.uk.

Interactive Personal Inflation Calculator

To assist individuals in understanding how the rise in inflation affects their expenditure, we have published a personal inflation calculator. It enables consumers to enter the amounts they spend against different categories, and the calculator will provide an estimate of their personal inflation based on those spending patterns.

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Contact details for this dataset

Consumer Price Inflation team
cpi@ons.gov.uk
Consumer Price Inflation Enquiries: +44 1633 456900. Consumer Price Inflation recorded message (available after 8am on release day): +44 808 196 1267

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