Chocolate and Sparkling Wines: Prices

(asked on 7th February 2022) - View Source

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.


Answered by
John Glen Portrait
John Glen
Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
This question was answered on 10th February 2022

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

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