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• Treasury needs more time to understand complexities of flawed measure of inflation

  01 May 2019

  Phillip Hammond delays decision on whether to cease issuing RPI-linked govvies

• UK MPs and Lords call on statistics chief to correct RPI error

  12 February 2019

  Joint letter tells UK Statistics Authority to seek permission from the chancellor to correct flaw in the retail price index

• Lords call for end of RPI's unwarranted windfalls in blow to insurers’ investments

  29 January 2019

  Transition to a CPI linker market is gaining traction, according to an enquiry by the UK House of Lords, but any changes would shift the balance between winners and losers, and some like Legal & General Investment Management are keen to keep the status quo, Adam Leach reports.

• RPI-linked gilts should be scrapped, say Lords

  18 January 2019

  Flaw in inflation-indexes methodology has led to recommendation from UK Parliament's upper house