LONDON (Reuters) -British government budget measures to cut household energy bills by 150 pounds ($199) a year may help lower the public’s inflation expectations, but it is too soon to draw a clear view, Bank of England policymaker Megan Greene said on Thursday.

Greene, speaking at a conference in London hosted by Irish financial services company Goodbody, said bank staff were assessing the inflation implications of finance minister Rachel Reeves’ second annual budget which was delivered on Wednesday.

Measures such as the cut to energy bills would typically be ignored by central bankers as they only have a one-off impact on the level of prices, rather than placing lasting downward pressure on inflation.

But given the importance of energy bills for households’ perceptions of longer-term

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