UK consumer price inflation levels keep firm

The inflation of food and non-alcoholic beverages is still well above than consumer goods but made the largest downward contributions to the UK inflation.

Food and fresh produce still the highest

Food and non-alcoholic beverages prices rose by 4.2% in the 12 months to November 2025, down from 4.9% in the 12 months to October (Figure 3). On a monthly basis, food and non-alcoholic beverages prices fell by 0.2% in November 2025, compared with a rise of 0.5% a year ago. The main upward effect to the change in the rate comes from fruit vegetables and meat products. The main downward effect came from bread and cereals, where the prices of products such as cakes, biscuits and breakfast cereals fell this year but rose a year ago. There were other smaller downward effects from dairy products and the sugar, jam, syrups, chocolate and confectionery class.

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