They decided to start using the more slowly rising consumer prices index (CPI) instead.
The inflation rate, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index, was 2.7% in January.
The rate as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) stayed at 2.7% in December.
There are two main measures: the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and the Retail Prices Index (RPI).
In its first decade of independence, Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation had averaged 1.6%.
Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation currently stands at 3.2% and the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) at 2.8%.
Latest figures released on Tuesday showed that the Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation had hit 4%.
Economists and statisticians who think the Retail Prices Index (RPI) is seriously flawed won't be happy either.
The Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation was 4.5% in May, and the Retail Prices Index rate was 5.2%.
In November, Japan's core consumer prices index, which excludes fresh food, fell 0.1%.
This is because it is linked to the Retail Prices Index measure of inflation the previous September, which was 4.6%.
The most frequently quoted and most significant ones are the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and the Retail Prices Index (RPI).
The wider Retail Prices Index measure of inflation - the one used for many pay negotiations - is already at 4.3%.
That is what the Jevons method - used in the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and around the world - would show.
The output index grew at the fastest rate since March, but the prices index was at its lowest for over a year.
The Office for National Statistics has decided not to make any fundamental change to the way it calculates the retail prices index (RPI).
According to the latest data, the core consumer prices index, which excludes fresh food, fell 0.1% in November, from a year earlier.
Tuition fees represent a tiny part of the Consumer Prices Index, but will be making an outsize contribution to inflation for several years to come.
Earlier this year, the trustees of the Airways Pension Scheme (APS) decided to stop using the retail prices index (RPI) to uprate pensions each year.
The rate of Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation rose slightly from 3.0% in November to 3.1% last month, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Tuesday's figures from the ONS also showed that Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation, which includes housing costs, rose to 3.3% in March from 3.2% in February.
As food and energy prices contribute 1.7% to Consumer Prices Index Inflation - which recently reached 3% - this leaves "little room" for price rises elsewhere.
The bond, a glorified IOU, will last for 10 years after which investors will get their money back, plus any rise in the retail prices index (RPI).
Price indices continued to retreat, with the prices paid index fell a whopping fifteen points to 28.3 and the prices received index fell three points to 2.2.
If we were creating the Retail Prices Index from scratch, the National Statistician, Jil Matheson, admits that we would not design it the way it is now.
The report forecasts that the consumer prices index will rise to 3% over the summer, but fall back to 2.5% by the autumn, as energy bills and food prices stabilise.
The most recent available data showed that Consumer Prices Index inflation was 2.5% in March, holding steady from February, but well ahead of the government's 2% target.
It had been pondering whether or not to make the RPI rise more slowly, and bring it more in step with the slower moving consumer prices index (CPI).
Mr Darling was speaking after the government's preferred inflation measure, the Consumer Prices Index rose, to 3.3% in May, with the Bank of England warning it may reach 4%.
The UK's inflation rate - as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) - currently stands at 2.7%, and it has not been at or below 2% since 2009.
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