In the correspondence below Better Statistics firstly asks whether the Office for Statistics Regulation is considering the HCI’s for status as National Statistics and queries the justification for continuing with CPIH as a National Statistic.
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Ed Humpherson’s reply suggests that both matters will be under consideration later in the year and assures us that Better Statistics will have the opportunity to comment in due course.
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Finally Tony Dent responds with an invitation for the OSR to provide a representative to the conference committee for this year’s Inflation2024 seminar; to be run in association with the Inflation Statistics User Group of the Royal Statistical Society. It is suggested that the seminar will solely be concerned with the issue of measuring inflation and is likely to be scheduled for later in May.
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