Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has done an assessment on the impact the 5.4 per cent rise in inflation crisis on the price of (a) chocolates, (b), flowers, (c) champagne and (d) sparkling wines.
The Treasury has made no such assessment. The independent Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes data on prices for items in the inflation basket each month. The latest data can be found here:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/consumerpriceinflation/previousReleases