The cost of a pint of milk has jumped by nearly a fifth in a year – one of the biggest price rises among a host of everyday purchases stretching family budgets. That’s according to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures that track the average prices of a range of supermarket goods.
These include meat, dairy, fresh fruit and vegetables and other essentials typically found in someone’s weekly shop. A pint of milk cost an average of 49p in February, which was 7p (17%) more than 42p a year earlier.
That was close to the sharpest rise of 45 food and drink items with comparable price data that were included in the ONS figures. The only thing to see a bigger increase proportionally was a 100-125g pack of ham, which rose 18% from £1.93 to £2.27.
