Instead, the method being recommended for including housing costs in CPIH is a measure of how much it would cost someone to rent a home from a private landlord - the rental equivalence method.
As for the proposed new measure, the ONS estimates that if CPIH had existed during the past four years, then it would have risen more slowly even than CPI during the whole of that period.
The ONS's advisory committee rejected the idea that the new measure, CPIH, should contain a direct assessment - known as the payments approach - of how much homeowners spend each month on paying for their homes.