Reuters, as with other media, continues to snub the CPIH measure, which has been the Office of National Statistics’ headline measure of inflation, and is now used in generating its real wage estimates. Instead it still reports on the old CPI measures. If anyone is interested, and there is really no reason to be, the CPIH inflation rate was 2.6% in June, the same as the CPI rate, down from 2.7% in May, a little lower than the CPI rate. The CPIH is the UK CPI with an owner-occupied housing (OOH) component based on rental equivalence added to it, and a component for council taxes. The CPIH excluding council tax would have some limited value for decomposing the difference between the inflation rate for the CPI and for the household final consumption expenditure (HHFCE) deflator due to different treatments of OOH. Otherwise, it is essentially useless.