Autumn Statement 2016 summary: Key points at-a-glance

Philip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement as chancellor. These are the key points.

Public borrowing/deficit/spending

• Government finances forecast to be £122bn worse off in the period until 2021 than forecast in March's Budget

• Debt will rise from 84.2% of GDP last year to 87.3% this year, peaking at 90.2% in 2017-18

• Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecasts borrowing of £68.2bn this year, then £59bn in 2017-18, £46.5bn in 2018-19, £21.9bn in 2019-20 and £20.7bn in 2020-21

• Public spending this year to be 40% of GDP - down from 45% in 2010

• Departmental spending plans set out in 2015 Spending Review to remain in place

• Government will meet commitments to protect budgets for key public services, defence, overseas aid and the pension "triple lock" until the end of this Parliament

The state of the economy

• OBR growth forecast upgraded to 2.1% in 2016 - from 2.0% - then downgraded to 1.4% in 2017, from 2.2%

• Forecast growth of 1.7% in 2018, 2.1% in 2019 and 2020 and 2% in 2021.

• Government no longer seeking a budget surplus in 2019-20 - committed to returning public finances to balance "as soon as practicable"

Taxation/pay

• Income tax threshold to be raised to £11,500 in April, from £11,000 now

• Higher rate income tax threshold to rise to £50,000 by the end of the Parliament

• Tax savings on salary sacrifice and benefits in kind to be stopped, with exceptions for ultra-low emission cars, pensions, childcare and cycling

• National Living Wage to rise from £7.20 an hour to £7.50 from April next year

• Employee and employer National Insurance thresholds to be equalised at £157 per week from April 2017

• Insurance premium tax to rise from 10% to 12% next June

Welfare

• Universal Credit taper rate to be cut from 65% to 63% from April at a cost of £700m

• No plans for further welfare savings in this Parliament

Housing

• Ban on upfront fees charged by letting agents in England "as soon as possible"

• £2.3bn housing infrastructure fund to help provide 100,000 new homes in high-demand areas

• £1.4bn to deliver 40,000 extra affordable homes

Fuel

• Fuel duty rise cancelled for seventh year in succession - at a cost of £850m, saving average car driver £130 and van driver £350 a year

• For the oil and gas sector, the Carbon Price Support capped until 2020 and business rates reductions worth £6.7bn

Transport/infrastructure/regions

• £1.1bn extra investment in English local transport networks

• £220m to reduce traffic pinch points

• £23bn to be spent on innovation and infrastructure over five years

• £2bn per year by 2020 for research and development funding

• £110m for East West Rail and commitment to deliver Oxford to Cambridge Expressway

• More than £1bn for digital infrastructure and 100% business rates relief on new fibre infrastructure

• £1.8bn from Local Growth Fund to English regions

• Rural Rate Relief to be increased to 100%, "giving small businesses a tax break worth up to £2,900"

• £7.6m for repairs to Wentworth Woodhouse, near Rotherham, said to be inspiration for Pemberley in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Business

• Doubling UK Export Finance capacity

• £400m into venture capital funds through the British Business Bank to unlock £1bn in finance for growing firms

Other

• Funding for 2,500 more prison officers

• Reforms to compensation for whiplash to cut the cost of motor insurance

• Promise to abolish Autumn Statement, with Budgets happening in the autumn from next year, along with "Spring Statement" from 2018