Britain announced plans on Monday to scale back energy subsidies for businesses for the next financial year by about 85% to 5.5 billion pounds ($6.7 billion), after the government described the current level of support as "unsustainably expensive". The current six-month programme of energy support that will expire at the end of March was predicted to cost 18.4 billion pounds when the government’s budget watchdog published forecasts in November.
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