RPI - legal advice on advocating usage
Dear UK Statistics Authority,
Para 3.22 of UKSA assessment report no 79, said that the ONS does not provide any additional information detailing how inflation indices should be used, "beyond that contained in the Technical Manual" as "it would not wish to contradict policy adopted by other Government departments or private companies in contracts or legal agreements since, by doing so, it could be considered liable for any loss of income resulting from its advice."
Please can you share with me all legal advice (internal or external) received in the ONS about this matter (from the date of the advice referred to above to the present) and the publication of the RPI more generally.
Yours faithfully,
Simon Briscoe
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