Chancellor urges Welsh government to give people £100 for energy bills
The chancellor has urged the Welsh government to implement a £100 "household energy payment" to council taxpayers.
John Healey said 20 million homes in council tax bands A-D in England would get the payment as he called on Welsh ministers to do the same for Wales.
He also announced £30m to fund a new train station in the east of Cardiff.
The UK government said the Welsh government, which funds public services in Wales including the NHS, would get an extra £450m over three years.
Plaid Cymru, which runs Wales' government, said the plans risked the "kind of spending reductions Wales experienced during the worst years of Tory cuts".
Healey's £100 a household energy payment for England aimed at tackling the cost of living crisis was among the measures in the Budget package announced on Wednesday.
The chancellor said the support costing £2.6bn would see money given to the governments of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as a consequence of the spending for England.
Healey said he wanted the nations to use the cash in a similar way, calling on the devolved administrations to "do the same and give people of all nations in the UK breathing space on their energy bills this winter".
It is thought that between 70 to 75% of Welsh household are in the A-D council tax band.
The Welsh government has been asked to comment.
Plaid Cymru MP Ben Lake said the £450m for Wales over the next three years risked "forcing the kind of spending reductions Wales experienced during the worst years of Tory cuts" because it had not kept up with inflation.
The party's Treasury spokesperson said: "Today's Budget was UK Labour's opportunity to prove that Wales is more than an afterthought in Treasury decisions. Instead, it appears to have delivered the worst funding settlement for Wales in years.
"After months of promises about a new relationship with Wales and a new approach from the Treasury, the question many people will be asking is – where is the ambition?"