Notice

02 July 2025

On 21 March 2025 we announced a pause to the ONS Producer Price Index (PPI) and Services Producer Price Indices (SPPI) due to an issue identified with the chain-linking methods used to calculate these indices.

Our investigations concluded the problem affects the period from December 2008 onwards, whilst the main impact on annual producer price inflation rates was in 2022 and 2023, because of the large movements in relative prices during that period.

To give clarity to our users, ONS has requested that the OSR accreditation of the PPI statistics be temporarily removed from all releases dating back to November 2020, when annual chain-linking was introduced. OSR has accepted this request as it clearly signals the limitations and uncertainty around the current estimates to our users.

As previously communicated, we are planning to recommence publication in the summer and will keep users informed of progress.

  • Contact:
  • Release date:
    19 February 2025
  • Next release:
    To be announced
  • Dataset ID:
    MM22

About this Dataset

Producer Price Indices (PPIs) are a series of economic indicators that measure the price movement of goods bought and sold by UK manufacturers.

Edition in this dataset

Previous versions of this data are available.

Important notes and usage information

  • Indices for the latest two months are provisional because of the level of imputation present for items where the latest prices are not available. The latest 12 months are subject to revisions because of late and revised contributor data.

  • All of the data included in this dataset are published on a 2015 = 100 basis.

  • Any gaps that are present in the time series are because of disclosure reasons.

Contact details for this dataset

Business Prices team
business.prices@ons.gov.uk
+44 1633 456907

Publications that use this data