John Healey’s Budget has assumed the government will approve North Sea discovery drilling projects that produce in excess of a billion barrels of oil and gas, in the clearest sign yet that ministers plan to rubber-stamp a wave of new drilling after Jackdaw and Rosebank. In its scorecard for the Chancellor’s maiden fiscal event, the Office for Budget Responsibility accounted for a boost in tax receipts from the “development of new fields” that not only include the controversial Rosebank oil field but also other “future…

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