Opposition parties are calling on Chancellor John Healey to cut green taxes, slash environmental red tape, and back North Sea oil in his first Budget .

The Conservatives warned Mr Healey not to use taxpayer money to help poorer households on welfare pay for rising energy bills, instead calling for moves that cut costs for everyone.

Reform UK set out dozens of measures that it claimed would help to generate jobs, including support for the Rosebank oil field and other North Sea projects, as well as policies such as a return to the wider use of imperial measurements and a ban on low-traffic neighbourhoods.

The government on Wednesday announced it had approved fresh drilling in the Jackdaw gas field , but Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh was yet to rule on the larger Rosebank oil project.

The Conservatives called for measures including the approval of Rosebank, the end of Labour ’s ban on new North Sea licences and the scrapping of the energy profits levy on oil and gas firms.

Energy Secretary Miatta…