Inflation in the UK decreases to 2.8 % in February

The chief economist Grant Vitzner said that the prices of clothes, especially for women’s clothes, were the largest engine of the annual inflation rate.

Clothes and shoes decreased by 0.6 percent, compared to an increase of 1.8 percent in 12 months to January.

This had been partially compensated by a small increase in other elements, including alcoholic beverages, said Vitzner.

The basic inflation, which excludes food, alcohol and tobacco, also decreased in February, to 3.5 percent of 3.7 percent in January.

But inflation, a major indicator of local price pressures, has not changed by 5 percent, and the disappointing analysts’ expectations of 4.9 percent.