The UK Statistics Authority wrote about comments from the Stakeholder Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices
The letter is dated 19 February 2019. A reply dated 4 September 2019 is published alongside it. The UK Statistics Authority published it as Comments from the Stakeholder Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices
. Below are 3 passages from the letter in the regulator's own words.
What the UK Statistics Authority wrote
“The ONS should have persisted with the work on clothing following the 2012 consultation to identify clearly if the new collection methods were resulting in better statistics for clothing prices in RPI or indeed CPI (where there was a major distortion prior to 2010).”
“Our request that the Technical Panel should work with the ONS on this was reiterated.”
“ONS must be always on the alert for any change to methodology that risks widening the wedge as this will produce unwelcome consequences, as we have seen since 2010.”
From UK Statistics Authority, letter of 19 February 2019. Read the full letter.
Correspondence
- Published reply: Response from the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Section 21) (4 September 2019)
- Published reply: Response from the Bank of England (Section 21) (4 March 2019)
- Published reply: Response to the Chancellor (Section 21) (4 September 2019)
- Published reply: Authority response to Lords Economic Affairs Committee’s report ‘Measuring Inflation’ (4 September 2019)
Related key figures
Receipt
| Read from | https://osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/correspondence/comments-from-the-stakeholder-advisory-panel-on-consumer-prices/ |
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| Date read | 15 October 2026 |
| SHA-256 | 6258c3b24464dd32ead519667c4edf36e31aca768b074c0998f2351d3e0f5fc9 |
| PDF on the letter page | https://osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/09/190219_Letter_from_APCP-S_to_National_Statistician.pdf3cb50569dc3aa161e6cf52e15f34c71debc1c6c1edb4e4713d8c81f5103334c7 |