Shortly after Monroe's announcement, the ONS stated they were going to move to personalised inflation rates that take people's income into account. The ONS's head of inflation statistics, Mike Hardie, wrote in a blog post on the department's website that "the average annual rate of inflation can conceal a lot", and agreed that some items analysed in its basket – such as fruit drinks and margarine – had experienced annual price increases of over 30 per cent, and in some cases, over 100 per cent.[10] Monroe hopes to have the first edition of the VBI published mid-February 2022.[10]