Energy prices rose by 15.5% in the 12 months to April, according to the Central Statistics Office.<\/p>\n
Food prices are estimated to have increased by 2% in the last 12 months, the latest figures from the CSO show.<\/p>\n
The CSO said the rate of inflation in the year to April is estimated to have risen by 3.6%, the same rate as it was in the 12 months to March when there was a significant increase following the rapid rise in oil prices following the Iran war.<\/p>\n
Anthony Dawson, statistician with the CSO, said: “The collection of prices for April 2026 took place between 13-23 April which means that some fuel prices would have been collected before the extra Government measures on fuel costs were introduced.”<\/p>\n
He added that inflation “excluding energy and unprocessed food prices, is estimated to have risen by 2.3% since April 2025.”<\/p>\n
The figures are compiled on the basis of the EU Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices. <\/p>\n
The Department of Finance last week forecast that inflation could average between 3.3% and 4.6% this year, depending on the scale of the impact on energy prices from the Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Energy prices rose by 15.5% in the 12 months to April, according to the Central Statistics Office. Food…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-557146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}