Pre-budget report

The Chancellor says he is confident the UK's economy will return to growth in 2010.

Follow all the announcements from today's Pre-Budget Report as they happen on PP Online from about 12.30pm.

Chancellor Alistair Darling is expected to delay the introduction of personal accounts for a year as part of spending cuts in today's Pre-Budget Report.

Local Government Pension Scheme reform could be used to help halve the budget deficit over the next four years, the department of communities and local government says.