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.
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
New cap on elements of welfare spending from April 2015
Cap to be set in cash terms every four years
Housing benefit, tax credits, disability living allowance to be included
State pension to be excluded
Pensioners living in certain EU countries to lose winter fuel allowance under new "temperature test"
Work and pensions resource budget cut by 9.5%
Claimants will have to attend language schools or benefits will be cut
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITIES
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
7% cut in resource budget
Elite sport to be protected
DEFENCE
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
Resource budget to rise to £53bn
New National Funding Formula for schools to ensure fairer distribution of funding
Money for 180 new free schools
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
- Published26 June 2013