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- Chancellor John Healey is preparing a £1 billion-plus package to ease household energy bills.
- The plan could give low-income households an extra £100 discount on electricity.
- Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh proposes removing all levies from household energy bills.
- Officials are studying a social tariff that would force suppliers to charge poorer households lower per-unit electricity prices.
- Household energy debt has risen to almost £7 billion.