{"id":17447,"date":"2024-11-20T07:17:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T07:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/inflation-rises-to-2-3-in-october-after-energy-bills-rise\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T07:17:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T07:17:08","slug":"inflation-rises-to-2-3-in-october-after-energy-bills-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/inflation-rises-to-2-3-in-october-after-energy-bills-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation rises to 2.3% in October after energy bills rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">UK inflation jumped last month in part due to rising energy prices, official figures show.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The inflation rate, which measures price changes over time, hit 2.3% in the year to October, an increase from 1.7% in September.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Annual gas and electricity bills rose by about \u00a3149 last month, but prices are rising much more slowly than in recent years.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">However, the rate, which is closely monitored to determine interest rates, is now back above the Bank of England&#8217;s 2% target.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c8rl4rgdj12o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK inflation jumped last month in part due to rising energy prices, official figures show. The inflation rate, which measures price changes over time, hit 2.3% in the year to October, an increase from 1.7% in September. Annual gas and electricity bills rose by about \u00a3149 last month, but prices are rising much more slowly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1495,908,916,1992,432,1287],"class_list":["post-17447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-bills","tag-energy","tag-inflation","tag-october","tag-rise","tag-rises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17449,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17447\/revisions\/17449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}