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Budget 2026 live: chancellor says scrapping gas standing charges will save 60% of homes £45 a year

John Healey says UK faces ‘difficult moment’ as he prepares to deliver first budget of Andy Burnham’s government You be the chancellor: play our budget game to see if you can balance the books The gas standing charges decision has also been welcomed by Nesta , a thinktank that recently published a paper arguing for exactly this policy. Andrew Sissons, director in sustainable future at Nesta, said: Ditching the gas standing charge rightly takes a big chunk off millions of people’s energy bills, s