He says it must be looked at alongside the weak economy Updated at 11.34am GMT 10.40am GMT Bank of England inflation report released Inflation will not return to target until early 2016.
Private economic consultants had already largely stopped publicly issuing their own figures after several of them were fined, and sued, for releasing inflation estimates.
The German Federal Statistics Office also released inflation data which showed consumer prices rose by 0.5% in the year to April, up from 0.3% in March.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases inflation figures on a monthly basis in the form of the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
Friday's announcemen followed the Labor Department's release of inflation numbers for September.
Rob Carnell of ING Bank said: "No comfort for the bears in today's US data release, with inflation and activity data all higher than expected.
Calls for European Central Bank action to help protect the eurozone's fragile recovery have grown after the release of inflation and jobless data.
Us just scored the seventh-biggest single day for any wholly original theatrical release, sans inflation, even if you count animated movies.
(That number will be recalculated on Wednesday when the government releases new inflation data).
In 2017, The Post's Anthony Faiola wrote that "Venezuela hasn't released official inflation data since 2015.
