Shopping Prices Comparison Tool

Each month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes  the latest annual inflation rate, which measures the change in the price of regularly purchased items (known as the basket of goods and services) compared with the same time the previous year.

Some goods and services contribute more to the overall inflation rate than others: if some items see a large increase in prices, while others stay more stable, then inflation would be driven by the changing prices in that spending category.

So, how the headline inflation rate affects your household depends on which items you tend to spend your money on. The shopping prices comparison tool has been built to help people understand why their household might have experienced inflation.

See: Consumer price inflation, UK - Office for National Statistics