Spending Review: An at-a-glance summary of the key points

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Chancellor George Osborne has announced government spending plans for 2015-16 and cuts to individual departmental budgets. Here is a summary of the main points.

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George Osborne said the government had "taken our economy back from the brink of bankruptcy"

OVERALL SPENDING

  • Government spending to total £745bn

  • Further savings of £11.5bn needed

PAY AND JOBS

  • 1% cap on public sector pay rises

  • Automatic progression pay to be ended in civil service, schools, hospitals, prisons and the police but not the armed forces

WELFARE

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Osborne outlines a welfare cap and withdrawal of winter fuel payments to ex-pats in hot countries

LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITIES

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George Osborne: "We will fund councils to freeze council tax for the next two years"

  • 10% cut in resource budget

  • £3bn capital spending on new houses

  • £200m extra for troubled families initiative

  • Council tax bills in England frozen for 2014-15 and 2015-16

CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT

DEFENCE

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George Osborne: Britain has "the finest armed forces in the world - and we intend to keep it that way"

  • Resource budget frozen at £24bn

  • 1% real-terms increase in military equipment budget

  • Civilian posts to be cut, but no reduction in armed forces personnel

  • Procurement and private finance initiative (PFI) contracts renegotiated

  • Permanent funding for military covenant that supports UK troops and their families

POLICING and JUSTICE

  • Budget cut of "less than 6%" for police

  • Counter-terrorism budget protected

  • Home Office resource budget cut by 6%

  • Justice resource budget cut by 10%

  • Prison costs to be reduced by £180m and court costs by £200m

COUNTER-TERRORISM

  • 3.4% increase in combined budget for intelligence agencies

TRANSPORT

  • 9% cut in resource budget

  • Running costs of Transport for London and Network Rail to be cut

  • Increase in capital spending to £9.5bn

BUSINESS, SKILLS AND UNIVERSITIES

  • Resource budget cut by 6%

  • Student maintenance grants frozen

  • More money for apprenticeships and UK exports

  • Capital spending up by 9%

  • Science budget to be frozen at £4.6bn both more money for capital projects

  • £2bn growth fund for local enterprise partnerships

EDUCATION

HEALTH

  • NHS budget in England to rise by 0.01% to £110bn

  • Rise in capital spending to £4.7bn

  • Joint £3bn commissioning plan between NHS and councils for social care

ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS

  • 10% budget cut in departmental spending

  • More money for flood defences

ENERGY

  • 8% cut in resource budget

  • Guarantees for new nuclear plants

  • Tax incentives for shale gas drilling

FOREIGN OFFICE AND INTERNATIONAL AID

  • 8% cut in Foreign Office resource budget, but more money for new embassies

  • International development budget protected, rising by £809m to £11.1bn.

INFRASTRUCTURE

  • Total £50bn investment in new projects

  • Details to be announced by Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander on Thursday

SCOTLAND, NORTHERN IRELAND AND WALES

  • 2% cut in grants to devolved administrations but extra capital investment powers

  • 10% cut to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Offices

  • £31m of new funding for the Police Service of Northern Ireland

CABINET OFFICE

  • 10% cut in resource budgets but extra support for National Citizenship Service