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Select committee: Economic Affairs Committee

The use of the retail price index (RPI)

Closed Opened 7 Jun 2018 Closed 7 Jun 2018

Economic Affairs Committee Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗

Inquiry scope (the committee's words)
The Committee finds that the UK Statistics Authority is at risk of being in breach of its statutory duties on the publication of statistics, by refusing to correct an error that it openly admits exists in the Retail Prices Index (RPI).

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Reports

2 reports

Oral evidence sessions

5 sessions

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Date Session and witnesses Source
9 Oct 2018
Oral evidence session
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17 Jul 2018
Oral evidence session
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10 Jul 2018
Oral evidence session
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19 Jun 2018
Oral evidence session
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12 Jun 2018
Oral evidence session
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Correspondence

14 letters

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PublishedDirectionLetter
14 Feb 2020 To committee Letter from the Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Chairman - 4 September 2019
29 Jan 2020 To committee Letter from Sir David Norgrove, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority to the Chair - 13 January 2020
27 Jan 2020 To committee Letter from the Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Chair - 13 January 2020
4 Sep 2019 To committee Letter from Sir David Norgrove, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority to the Chairman - 4 September 2019
28 Jun 2019 To committee Letter from Sir David Norgrove, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority to the Chairman - 27 June 2019
28 Jun 2019 To committee Letter from the Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Chairman - 27 June 2019
25 Jun 2019 To committee Letter from the Chairman to the Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir David Norgrove, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority - 30 June 2019
1 May 2019 To committee Letter from The Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Chairman - 30 April 2019
1 May 2019 To committee Letter from Sir David Norgrove, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority to the Chairman - 30 April 2019
18 Mar 2019 To committee Letter from John Pullinger, National Statistician to the Chairman - 13 March 2019
18 Mar 2019 To committee Letter from the Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the Chairman - 13 March 2019
12 Feb 2019 To committee Letter from the Rt Hon Lord Forsyth of Drumlean and the Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP to John Pullinger, Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority - 6 February 2019
11 Oct 2018 To committee Letter from Sir David Norgrove to the Chairman
7 Sep 2018 To committee Letter from the Chairman to Sir David Norgrove (5 September 2018)