{
  "id": 16865107,
  "title": "Healey to Scrap UK’s Standing Charges on Gas Bills",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/healey-to-scrap-uks-standing-charges-on-gas-bills",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-28T07:07:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Bloomberg",
    "slug": "bloomberg",
    "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-28/healey-to-scrap-uk-s-standing-charges-on-gas-bills"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Standing charges on gas bills will be scrapped for millions of British households as soon as next year, Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey will announce today.",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}