LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s energy price cap for consumers and government-funded discounts on bills for businesses will push official measures of inflation lower, the country’s statistics office said on Monday. The Office for National Statistics said the Energy Price Guarantee (EPG) for households, and the Energy Bill Relief Scheme for businesses, would lower the unit prices of energy that feed into inflation indexes. The consumer prices index “will hence be lower while the schemes are in operation than if the EPG had not been introduced,” the ONS said in a statement. Similarly, the energy bi…