Houmous and non-alcoholic beer join basket of items used to track UK inflation

Non-alcoholic beer has been added to a list of items used to measure inflation (Alamy/PA) -

Houmous and non-alcoholic beer have been added to a list of items used to measure how quickly prices are rising in the UK, as healthier habits influence consumer spending.

A big shake-up to the data this year will also mean millions of prices will be automatically collected from supermarket tills to replace manual collection.