With an election so near, the pre-budget report was bound to be a holding operation.
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It will be hoping for good news in the pre-budget report on December 9th.
For that reason I am proposing to bring forward one measure from the Pre-Budget Report now.
The budget report is due to be discussed with Nottinghamshire County Council on 5 February.
You only need to read the figures in the Pre-Budget Report to realise just how much.
In principle, the pre-budget report will not discuss the overall spending plans of individual departments.
The Autumn Statement replaces what was called the pre-Budget report during the Labour government's time in office.
The NHF based its figures on analysis of the pre-Budget report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
This week's pre-budget report promised reviews of taxes for people who invest or work in new companies.
It's because at the heart of the Pre Budget Report were deficit figures that were truly shocking.
It is for these reasons, I believe, that the recent Pre-Budget Report received such a negative response.
The council's opposition Conservative group has criticised the pre-budget report for lacking detail.
His budget report, published earlier, also proposes a phasing out of mortgage interest relief by the end of 2021.
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In last autumn's pre-Budget report, the chancellor forecast the economy would contract by between 0.75% and 1.25% in 2009.
Increases to national insurance contributions, announced in the pre-Budget report last year, meant tax rises were not necessary, he said.
Mr Darling announced the abolition of CGT taper relief in favour of a flat 18% rate in his Pre-Budget Report.
In his Budget and pre-Budget report last year, Gordon Brown pumped several billion pounds of public money into the economy.
Details will come in his pre-budget report in November, but some expenditure has already been fast-tracked in housing and defence.
The growth estimate is well above Chancellor Gordon Brown's forecast of 2.5% to 3% made in his pre-Budget report last November.
"The growth and public borrowing forecasts contained in the pre-Budget report look very optimistic, " said Howard Archer, economist at Global Insight.
In November's pre-budget report, the Treasury forecast much lower current-budget surpluses over the next four years than in the 2001 budget.
The real point of the pre-Budget report is to put new policy and tax ideas into the public domain before legislating.
The chancellor said in his pre-Budget report that approval from the European Commission and "some technical and practical considerations" would need to be resolved.
The reason the government introduced a pre-budget report was ostensibly to stimulate debate and to build consensus about its economic policies.
So, too, could a spring budget that, like December's pre-budget report, failed to spell out a credible plan to reduce the deficit.
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And a decision could come on Monday in Gordon Brown's pre-Budget report.
He set out his reasons in a paper analysing policy in the past two cycles published the day before the pre-budget report.
Presenting the pre-budget report last November, the chancellor said he was expecting growth of 2.5-3% in 2003, accelerating to 3-3.5% in 2004.
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In its November pre-budget report, the Treasury said the New Deal was designed to achieve a permanent boost in the level of employment.
The Treasury's budget report, known as the Red Book, is characteristically terse, but it cannot disguise the fact that this is another hypothecated tax.
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