Historical time series for last 3 years for Average Effective Rate (AER) series provided to the ONS

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Date: 15 July 2020

Disclosure:

The Average Effective Rates sent to the Office for National Statistics by the Bank of England (the ‘Bank’) as part of the calculation of the Retail Price Index for the time period April 2017 to May 2020 has been broken down by month.

Please note, the series column listed as ‘original submission’ was as at April 2020 and the series column listed as ‘revised submission’ was as at May 2020.

Average Effective Rate (%)
Original Submission Revised Submission
April 2017 2.59 2.59
May 2017 2.59 2.59
June 2017 2.57 2.57
July 2017 2.56 2.56
August 2017 2.54 2.54
September 2017 2.53 2.53
October 2017 2.51 2.51
November 2017 2.52 2.52
December 2017 2.61 2.61
January 2018 2.51 2.51
February 2018 2.51 2.51
March 2018 2.4 2.4
April 2018 2.49 2.49
May 2018 2.47 2.47
June 2018 2.47 2.47
July 2018 2.47 2.47
August 2018 2.53 2.53
September 2018 2.47 2.47
October 2018 2.54 2.54
November 2018 2.52 2.52
December 2018 2.52 2.52
January 2019 2.48 2.48
February 2019 2.39 2.39
March 2019 2.46 2.46
April 2019 2.44 2.44
May 2019 2.45 2.45
June 2019 2.43 2.43
July 2019 2.43 2.43
August 2019 2.43 2.43
September 2019 2.42 2.42
October 2019 2.41 2.41
November 2019 2.4 2.4
December 2019 2.4 2.4
January 2020 2.34 2.34
February 2020 2.33 2.34
March 2020 2.34 2.34
April 2020 2.31 2.15
May 2020 2.18