The Consumer Price Index "CPI", rose to 4% (3.7% in December 2010), while the Retail Price Index "RPI" (which includes interest payments) went from 4.8% to 5.1%.
According to the Bank of England, this is mainly the effect of the change of the UK VAT rate from 17.5 to 20%.
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