Was the Budget a full house for the chancellor?

The chancellor has set out the government's tax and spending plans, including how he intends to deal with rising energy bills.

In his first Budget John Healey announced a £100 payment for 20 million households in council tax bands A to D in England.

The Household Energy Payment will be paid directly into bank accounts from January, funded by extra tax on banks.

We spoke to some of the patrons of Bingo Godz Bingo Hall in Farnborough, Hampshire, following the chancellor's announcement. Did the news make them want to Bang on the Drum, or was it Unlucky for Some?

Evelyn Campbell, 91, says the payment is "very nice" but "it's not the bands that they need to give it to, it's the people".

"The people in those bands, probably half of them don't need it," she suggests.

"It's people that haven't got the money that they should be giving it to, and there's a lot of people that don't claim things that need it. I think there should be some other way of measuring it."

Ultimately she thinks £100 is "not a lot".

Trish Steadman, 70, describes it as "very good to get some money back".

"It's quite hard when all the bills keep going up and up, but your money doesn't, so the £100 is a welcome relief," she says.

"I'll put it towards heating, especially as we're coming into the winter months."

"My band is higher than that," Annie Avery, 72, explains.

"It's not going to affect me particularly because every time they give you something they tax you more anyway.

"They give it to you in one hand and they take it away in another, so I think it's rubbish."

David and Gloria Reed, 80 and 70 respectively, have been married for 58 years and recently moved into their daughter's house after David became ill.

"It helps I suppose, but when the price of everything else is going up, it's not going to make an awful lot of difference," Gloria says.

"It's a paltry bit of help I think. Not many people would agree with me, anything's better than nothing I suppose, but we're quite lucky because we don't have that worry anymore, but I do feel sorry for people that are in that predicament and have not got a lot."

These interviews have been edited for length and clarity.