The Workplace for Nationwide Statistics (ONS) mentioned the Client Costs Index rose 3.5% within the 12 months to April 2025, up from 2.6% within the 12 months to March. The UK authorities’s goal for inflation is 2%.
The most important upward contributions got here from housing and family companies, transport, and recreation and tradition.
Rises in employers’ Nationwide Insurance coverage and the Nationwide Residing Wage additionally took impact in April.
Nevertheless, the biggest downward contribution got here from clothes and footwear, the place costs fell 0.4% within the yr to the top of April 2025 and 1.1% in contrast with March 2025.
ONS appearing director basic Grant Fitzner mentioned: “Vital will increase in family payments induced inflation to climb steeply. Gasoline and electrical energy payments rose this month in contrast with sharp falls on the similar time final yr due to modifications to the Ofgem power value cap.
“Water and sewerage payments additionally rose strongly this yr as did car excise responsibility, which all pushed the headline fee as much as its highest stage because the starting of final yr.
“This was partially offset by falling costs for motor fuels and clothes, pushed by heavy discounting for youngsters’s clothes and ladies’s footwear.”
