Question follow-through · 268
Pay and Pensions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed alignment of the Retail Prices Index methodology with the Consumer Prices Index, including owner occupier housing costs from February 2030 on (a
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 24 Jul 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed alignment of the Retail Prices Index methodology with the Consumer Prices Index, including owner occupier housing costs from February 2030 on (a
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jul 2024
Answer published
The alignment of the methods and data sources of the Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs into the Retail Price Index (RPI) reflects the flaws in RPI which can either overstate or understates price changes. The Bank of England wi...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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