14 November 2025
The data found in versions of this dataset released between November 2020 and February 2025 are incorrect. This is because of an error identified with the chain-linking methods used to calculate Producer Price Indices (PPI) and Services Producer Price Indices (SPPI) since November 2020 when chain-linking methodology was introduced.
On 21 March 2025, we announced a pause to the PPI and SPPI), because of this error.
We also requested that the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) accreditation of the PPI statistics be temporarily removed from all releases dating back to November 2020, when this annual chain-linking was first introduced.
We restarted the publication of PPI and SPPI on 22 October 2025 following a period of reviewing, correcting and quality assuring the index weights and chain-linking methodology. This is described fully in our Impact of correction to chain-linking methodology article, which was published on the same day.
The accredited official statistics status will remain suspended, pending a compliance review by the OSR.
We apologise for these corrections.
26 August 2026
We identified an error in the published index values for the ESMI index (PPI INDEX IMPORT NEU - C2441 Precious metals 2015=100), covering the period January to June 2026. This was the result of an error in the system used to transfer our internal calculated values to the website timeseries system. We have reviewed how this occurred and have implemented changes to the system to prevent this happening, along with identifying additional quality assurance checks to mitigate the risk of similar errors in the future. The error only affected the upload of index values to the website for publication. It did not affect the internal calculations used to produce the statistics presented in the bulletin.
No other indices were affected, and the bulletin (Producer price inflation, UK: July 2026) and dataset (Producer price inflation statistics) were also unaffected.
