Alistair Darling will extend some of the government's recession busting business support schemes and announce plans to help more cash strapped start ups in an attempt to help build economic growth.
In his pre budget report on Wednesday he'll explain how because finance from the banks is still scarce, the Treasury has decided to allow businesses longer to benefit from several of the schemes that formed part of his £20bn fiscal stimulus package a year ago.
One of them is the Enterprise Finance Guarantee, which provides taxpayer support for small business loans, which has helped more than six thousand companies.
This will now be extended by at least six months from March 2010 when it was supposed to come to an end.
"Time to Pay", which lets firms spread out tax bills, and has allowed 150,000 of them to defer £4bn of payments, will also continue into 2010.
