Food and Energy: Prices
(asked on 2nd February 2022) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) energy, and (2) food, prices in (a) the financial years from 2016 to 2021, and (b) from the period covering 1 April 2021 to 31 January 2022.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) collects and publishes data on energy and food prices in its monthly consumer price inflation bulletin.
The data from each year from 2016 has been reproduced in the table below. Data for January 2022 will be published on 16 February 2022.
ONS CPI Detailed annual changes 2008 to 2021 (% Change over 12 months)
| Consumer Price Inflation | Food and non-alcoholic beverages Inflation | Electricity, gas and other fuels Inflation |
2016 | 0.7 | -2.4 | -3.0 |
2017 | 2.7 | 2.2 | 3.8 |
2018 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 6.8 |
2019 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 3.8 |
2020 | 0.9 | 0.6 | -4.6 |
2021 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 4.7 |