The use of different measures of inflation

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Dear Her Majesty’s Treasury,

Please can you let me have any (internal or published) documents (including letters and emails) that note, discuss or list the different actual or potential uses of the different inflation indices such as RPI, RPIX, CPI and so on?

Yours faithfully,

Simon Briscoe

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Dear FOI Requests,

Thank you for your reply. Could you please restrict the request to cover papers, reports, emails etc seen at director level and above and covering the period since 2009.

Yours sincerely,

Simon Briscoe

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Dear FOI Requests,

I wondered if you knew when I might get a reply?

Yours sincerely,

Simon Briscoe

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Dear FOI Requests,

Thank you for your reply. Could you please restrict the request even further to cover papers, reports, emails etc seen by the chief economic adviser, the deputy, and the permanent secretaries, and covering the period since 2009.

Yours sincerely,

Simon Briscoe

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Dear FOI Requests,

Further to my refused requests of 19 August, 23 September and 19 October , can you please restrict the request to papers dating from 2010? So that's just one topic in one year and a handful of people.

Yours sincerely,

Simon Briscoe

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Dear FOI Requests,

Could you please send me papers, reports, emails etc referring to the retail prices index (RPI) seen by the chief economic adviser and the Treasury director responsible for the preparation of the Budget, covering the period January to August 2010.

Yours sincerely,

Simon Briscoe

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Dear Mr Briscoe

 

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Dear FOI Requests,

Could you please send me papers, reports, emails etc seen by the department's chief economic adviser and the Treasury director responsible for the preparation of the Budget, regarding public statements about the uses of the retail prices index (RPI), especially how it might be used for uprating of benefits and pensions, covering the period January to August 2010.

Yours sincerely,

Simon Briscoe

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Dear FOI Requests,

Thanks for your reply.

I draw your attention to large sections of the 2010 Budget, for example:
"1.106 The Government will use the CPI for the price indexation of benefits and tax credits from April 2011. The CPI provides a more appropriate measure of benefit and pension recipients’ inflation experiences than RPI, because it excludes the majority of housing costs faced by homeowners (low income households are subsidised separately through Housing Benefit, and the majority of pensioners own their home outright), and differences in calculation mean it may be considered a better representation of the way consumers change their consumption patterns in response to price changes. This will also ensure consistency with the measure of inflation used by the Bank of England. This change will also apply to public service pensions through the statutory link to the indexation of the Second State Pension. The Government is also reviewing how the CPI can be used for the indexation of taxes and duties while protecting revenues."

It would be surprising if neither of these individuals had seen any papers, reports or emails relating to, or been involved in discussions, about what was a major component of the Budget. Hence I request an internal review.

Yours sincerely,

Simon Briscoe

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J Roberts left an annotation ()

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