CPI

Every little helps. Or so goes the advertising slogan of Britain's largest supermarket, Tesco.

CPI annual inflation fell to 3.4% in February, down from 3.6% in January, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Unions have lost their appeal against the judicial review that backed the government's decision to use the Consumer Prices Index for uprating public sector pensions.

Jim Singer launched the highly popular e-petition urging the government to reverse its switch to CPI for pension and benefits indexation. It attracted 110,000 supporters and triggered a parliamentary debate, which he watched at the House of Commons. He...

A judge has ruled that QinetiQ has the right to switch to using the Consumer Prices Index to calculate future pension increases.

Tesco is consulting with staff on increasing the retirement age of its career average defined benefit (DB) scheme from 65 to 67.

The Office for National Statistics has updated the basket of goods used to calculate CPI inflation - which sets increases to the state pension - to include iPads and teen fiction.

Balfour Beatty has slashed its pension deficit from £354m to £188m over the last year through a mixture of employer contributions, de-risking and changing actuarial assumptions.

Guarantees given in Civil Service Pensions member communications to link benefits to the Retail Prices Index were the result of bad drafting, the government admits.

MPs have rejected calls to reintroduce the Retail Prices Index for pensions uprating in a debate triggered by an online petition which attracted more than 100,000 signatories.