UK statisticians find errors in RPI index used for bond payments

Britain's statisticians said on Thursday they had found errors in the weighting of different goods in the basket of items used in the retail prices index of inflation that underpins payments on the country's inflation-linked government bonds.March's rate of RPI inflation should have been 2.5% rather than 2.4%, while June's RPI rate should have been 2.8% rather than 2.9%, the Office for National Statistics said.Unlike other British statistics, RPI is not corrected retrospectively, but the discove