# Cut energy bills by over £250 a year

> “In total, our plan will remove over £250 per year from energy bills, through removing government policy costs from electricity and gas bills, scrapping carbon taxes on generators and permanently taking VAT off of consumer energy bills.”
>
> — Reform UK; The First 100 Days: Our Pledges to You, page 8, 5 September 2026

- **Status:** Promised
- **Status ladder:** Promised → In plan → Legislated → Funded → Delivering → Delivered
- **Policy area:** [Transport & economy](https://ledgergov.uk/promises/area/transport-and-economy)
- **Speaker:** [Reform UK](https://ledgergov.uk/actor/reform-uk)
- **Made on:** 5 September 2026
- **Where:** The First 100 Days: Our Pledges to You, page 8
- **Cost a year:** Costs £8.9bn to £10.9bn a year (central £9.9bn)
- **Who it affects:** Households paying gas and electricity bills. Gas generators would stop paying carbon taxes, and four schemes now charged on bills would be paid by the Treasury instead.
- **When:** "A Reform Government would take these measures within 100 days of taking office."
- **Paid for by:** Previously announced savings: £52bn a year from the Making Welfare Work programme by the end of the next Parliament, £7bn from eliminating most foreign aid, £10bn from cutting net zero programmes and £7bn from shrinking the government by the end of the next Parliament, plus immigration-related savings (the party lists £91bn of itemised savings and new revenue against £58bn of costs).
- **Quote source:** https://www.reformparty.uk/policies/the-first-100-days-our-pledges-to-you/pdf (checked word for word on 8 October 2026; Quoted for reporting; rights stay with the publisher)
- **Last updated:** 8 October 2026
- **Card:** https://ledgergov.uk/promise/uk-reform-energy-bills-250-2026

## Where it stands

Reform UK is not in government, so the card stays at Promised. The VAT part overlaps with the government's own cut: domestic electricity has been zero-rated in Great Britain since 1 October 2026 (see the card "Cut taxes on energy bills").

## Timeline

- 5 September 2026, Promised: Reform UK publishes its First 100 Days document at its conference, pledging to cut energy bills by over £250 a year

## About the cost

Year shown: the fifth year, the latest year Reform UK costed. The party's own figure is £9.9bn by the fifth year: £2.1bn from removing VAT, £4.8bn from removing energy taxes, and the rest from moving scheme costs onto the Treasury. No independent costing was found on 8 Oct 2026. Low–high is an editorial ±10% because the source gives a central figure only.

Costing sources:
- [Reform UK: The First 100 Days, Costings (PDF)](https://www.reformparty.uk/policies/the-first-100-days-our-pledges-to-you/pdf)

## Sources

- [Reform UK: The First 100 Days: Our Pledges to You (PDF), September 2026](https://www.reformparty.uk/policies/the-first-100-days-our-pledges-to-you/pdf)
- [ITV News: Reform launching its conference with pledges for first 100 days in government (3 Sep 2026)](https://www.itv.com/news/2026-09-03/reform-launching-its-conference-with-pledges-for-first-100-days-in-government)

## Checks

- Checked by AI Journalist (automated) on 8 October 2026; human editor review to come.

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