Jeremy Hunt is being urged to use the Budget to “put money back into people’s pockets” – with the SNP challenging the Chancellor to not only extend help with energy bills but to raise benefits and public sector wages in line with inflation.
The party’s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn called on the Chancellor to use his tax and spending plans to seek to “reverse the damage his government has caused”.
The SNP says that by cutting the Energy Price Guarantee to £2,000 and maintaining the £400 Energy Bill Support Scheme to the summer, the UK Government could save households across the UK £1,400 on energy bills.
