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banner Pre Budget Report 2004
Last Updated: Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 14:57 GMT 15:57 UK
Gordon Brown flanked by Treasury minister Stephen Timms
Brown shrugs off economy worries
Gordon Brown outlines to MPs plans to freeze fuel duty, minimise council tax rises and boost childcare.
Key points at-a-glance
Your views on pre-Budget
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Brown defends optimism
Promises of a balanced budget
Parents receive childcare boost
�1bn to ease council tax pressure
Non-EU import duty limits to rise
Petrol duties frozen
Workers get free skills training
Museums welcome tax break
Full text of speech

Have Your Say
Chancellor's pre-Budget report: Your reaction
Documents in full
Read the Chancellor's full Pre-Budget Report and related documents
Anne Redston gives her reaction to this year's pre-Budget report. Expert view
Pre-Budget handouts won't prevent tax rises tomorrow

POLITICS

Gordon Brown Brown's upbeat message for Labour

Cabinet anger at Brown cash raid
Waste is Brown's legacy - Letwin
Lib Dems stress Budget trust gap
Warning on Blair-Brown 'battles'
WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU

Key measures in the PBR

Ask the analyst
'Universal childcare' is promised
More 'wrap-around' nursery care
What we already knew

ECONOMICS

Chancellor Gordon Brown Budget squeeze limits room for electioneering

Does Brown face a black hole?
UK to invest long-term in science
'Progress' in war on poverty
Brown 'may miss target'

I'm still the man
Brown makes election pitch - and finds time for swipe at old foe
Interactive quiz
Put your economic know how to the test in our pre-Budget quiz
Numbers game
At-a-glance guide to the UK economy


BUSINESS
Small-firm focus from Chancellor
Brown tackles tax dodges
Clampdown on film tax avoidance
BUDGET 2004 - FULL COVERAGE
Brown draws election battle lines
Anyone for a game of chess?
Where's the waste?

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Chancellor Gordon Brown Gordon Brown delivers his pre-Budget report




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