The Chancellor's Autumn Statement on 5live

As you'd expect, it will be live on 5live. Shelagh will be presenting her programme from Westminster, with analysis from 5live's Chief Political Correspondent John Pienaar. All sorts of other guests are booked to look ahead to the statement, and offer their analysis afterwards.

The purpose of the Autumn Statement, which is a scaled-down version of what Labour called their Pre-Budget Report, is to present the official economic and public finance forecasts and the Chancellor's response to these.

Last year's statement was sandwiched between the headline grabbing Spending Review in October and the budget in March of this year, and was pretty low key. Not so this time. With the crisis in the Eurozone and the UK economy weak, this year's Autumn Statement is much more significant. You can get loads of background information on the current state of the UK economy here, on the BBC News website.

You may remember in March this year 5live 'adopted' two towns to track people's economic fortunes - Falmouth in Cornwall and Chorley in Lancashire. I was in Falmouth for the Budget in the spring. 5live's south west of England reporter Sarah Ransome has been keeping an eye on things there since, and 5live reporters Judy Hobson and Andrew Fletcher have been dropping into Chorley regularly.

I am heading back to Falmouth on Tuesday, and will be reporting for Phil Williams, who is sitting in for Richard Bacon, and Drive. If you're in Falmouth or nearby and want to join us, get in touch.

Chris Mason is 5live's Political Reporter. You can follow Chris on Twitter @ChrisMasonBBC