As well as planning to reduce spending, the Resolution Foundation said that more people were now saving.

BBC: One third of UK adults 'plan to spend less this year'

The survey of 1, 993 people was carried out by Ipsos Mori on behalf of the Resolution Foundation.

BBC: One third of UK adults 'plan to spend less this year'

This was brought out in recent research by economists at the Resolution Foundation (you see I have been doing my homework....) It found that higher unemployment was now having a much greater "chilling effect" on wages than in the past.

BBC: Living wage: Is there such a thing as a free pay rise?

As the Resolution Foundation points out, in its forecasts the OBR has once again put off the date at which average earnings will start to keep up with inflation, from the second quarter of next year until the second quarter of 2014.

BBC: Autumn Statement: What has changed?

This has become increasingly critical in the light of research by the Resolution Foundation showing as many as one million women are absent from the workplace because economically it makes more financial sense for them to care for their own children than to pay others to do so.

BBC: Ministers 'plan childcare change'

Previewing ideas he will set out in full with a speech on Tuesday to the independent Resolution Foundation - whose work is devoted to diagnosing the problems affecting low to middle income earners - Mr Boles proposes a philosophical shift that should guide the next round of spending cuts due for 2013 or 2014.

BBC: UK Politics

Security Council Resolution 1929, which is the foundation of all the sanctions that we then moved on to put in place on the Iranian government.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

And the decisions made last night were very important, and they lay the foundation for the kind of decisive, conclusive resolution to these challenges that need to happen.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing