Special 'social tariff' to cut energy bills long-term for certain people being considered

The chief executive of Ofgem has backed calls for a social energy tariff - as he warned bills are unlikely to return to pre-pandemic levels.

Jonathan Brearley said a fall in wholesale energy prices over recent months was expected to feed through to millions of households over time.

But he said: “While we are some way from the more shocking predictions that we saw a few months ago, prices are unlikely to go back to the levels we saw pre-pandemic.”