Industry

(asked on 12th September 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what has been the trend for input prices for industry since the EU Referendum.


Answered by
Baroness Neville-Rolfe Portrait
Baroness Neville-Rolfe
Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 26th September 2016

On a monthly basis, total input prices rose by 0.2% in August 2016, after rising by 3.1% in July 2016 and by 1.7% in June 2016.

On a monthly basis, core input prices rose by 0.2% in August 2016, after a rise of 4.2% in July 2016 and 0.7% in June 2016.

The latest ONS producer price inflation data can be found in the following release (also attached): https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/producerpriceinflation/august2016#input-prices-summary

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