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Core UK inflation has begun to fall in past 2 months, ONS research finds
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Core UK inflation has begun to fall in past 2 months, ONS research finds

Published August 21, 2023
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Core inflation in the UK has begun to fall in the past two months, according to an official estimate based on a more sophisticated statistical analysis than used in the standard approach.

In an article published on Monday, the Office for National Statistics said that when it looked at the common elements of inflation that existed across all the prices it measured, it found the underlying annual rate had dropped to 6.8 per cent in July, down from 7 per cent the previous month and 7.3 per cent in May.

In contrast, last week’s official inflation data showed that the standard core measure fell from 7.1 per cent in May to 6.9 per cent in June and unexpectedly stuck there in July. Inflation in services, often quoted by the Bank of England as the best gauge of domestic price pressures was 7.4 per cent in May and in July with a small dip in June.

The piece of research will give both the BoE and the government hope that inflation figures will not spring nasty surprises through the rest of this year.

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Unlike the normal approach for calculating core inflation, which simply excludes food, energy and alcoholic drinks from the overall measure, the new ONS methodology works out what it called the “common trend component” that shows the rate of price rises across all goods and services.

This seeks to minimise the remaining volatile element for every measured item in the basket of goods and services. Some prices, such as petrol, diesel, gas and electricity tend to move independently from other goods and services, so have a high volatile component and low common component. Electrical goods, which have decreased in price over many decades, are equally seen to be poor predictors of underlying inflationary pressures.

The ONS said the research suggested that restaurant prices were by far the best indicator of overall underlying inflation because they changed at the same time as the prices of most other goods and services either rose or fell.

This means that the prices in McDonald’s, PizzaExpress or Nando’s have been “a good measure of the underlying trend in consumer prices inflation in the UK economy”, it added.

Statisticians speculated that this trend resulted from restaurants reflecting rent, energy, food and labour costs, “so price movements often reflect the same broad shocks that impact the majority of items in the index”.

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The value of restaurant prices in reflecting overall inflationary trends, has, however, decreased since the pandemic with prices rising faster than other goods and services.

In the latest official figures, annual price rises for restaurants and cafés stood at 9 per cent in July, falling from 9.1 per cent in June and down from a peak inflation rate of 11.4 per cent in February.

Month-on-month, prices in the sector rose 0.5 per cent in July, suggesting the underlying annual rate of restaurant inflation was 6.2 per cent, still three times the BoE’s 2 per cent inflation target.

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