Food poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe has welcomed changes in the pipeline to how the cost of living is measured.
Monroe had complained that everyday essentials were going up in price by more than the official inflation rate, hitting poorer people hardest. But she said the official way inflation is calculated failed to reflect this.
On Wednesday, the official statistics body hit back, saying it was already changing how it measured prices with longer-term plans to improve its inflation figures by including data from supermarket checkouts.
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NAM Implications:
- ‘Already changing how it measured prices with longer-term plans to improve its inflation figures’.
- But inflation discrepancies are hitting vulnerable people now…
