Chancellor George Osborne yesterday announced the government’s spending review and budgetary plans for 2015/16. Here are the main points:

Overall Spending

  • Government spending to total £745bn
  • £11.5bn of further cuts required under the government’s austerity plans

Public Sector Pay

  • 1% cap on public sector pay rises
  • Automatic progression pay to be ended in civil service, schools, hospitals, prisons and the police

Welfare

  • New cap on elements of welfare spending including housing benefit, tax credits, and disability living allowance
  • Pensioners living in certain warmer EU countries to lose winter fuel allowance
  • Work and pensions resource budget cut by 9.5%

Local Government

  • 10% cut in resource budget
  • £3bn capital spending on building new houses
  • £200m extra for “troubled families initiative”
  • Council tax bills in England frozen until 16

Culture, Media and Sport

  • 7% cut in resource budget
  • 5% cut to budgets for museums and arts organisations

Defence

  • Resource budget frozen at £24bn
  • Civilian positions to be cut, but no reduction in armed forces personnel

Police and Justice

  • Police budget cut be “less than 6%”
  • 6% cut to Home Office resource budget
  • 10% cut to Justice resource budget
  • Prison costs reduced by £180m
  • Court costs reduced by £200m

Intelligece and Counter Terrorism

  • 3.4% increase in combined budget for intelligence agencies

Transport

  • 9% cut in resource budget
  • Increase in capital spending to £9.5bn

Business, Skills and Universities

  • 6% cut to resource budget/li>
  • Student maintenance grants frozen
  • More money for apprenticeships
  • 9% increase to capital spending
  • Science budget frozen at £4.6bn
  • £2bn growth fund for local enterprise partnerships

Education

  • Resource budget to rise to £53bn
  • Budget for schools in England protected
  • 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
  • £3bn for social care in joint plan between NHS and councils

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  • 10% budget cut in departmental spending

Energy

  • 8% cut in resource budget
  • Guarantees for new nuclear plants
  • Tax incentives for shale gas drilling

Foreign Office

  • 8% cut in Foreign Office resource budget
  • International development budget rises by £809m to £11.1bn

Infrastructure

  • £50bn investment in new projects

Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales

  • 2% cut in grants to devolved administrations
  • Additional capital investment powers to devolved administrations
  • 10% cut to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Offices

Cabinet Office

  • 10% cut in resource budgets