ECONOMY: * Inflation expected to be 1.75% this year and 2% in 2006 and beyond.
* Domestic demand forecast to grow by 3.25% to 3.5% this year and 2.5% to 3% in 2006.
* Growth last year was 3.1%, as forecast. Growth this year is forecast to be 3% to 3.5%, and 2.5% to 3% next year.
* Golden Fiscal Rule will be met by a margin of £6bn.
* New 50-year bond.
EFFICIENCY
* 7,800 civil service jobs moved out of the South-East.
* First £2bn of value-for-money savings identified in the Gershon Review have been achieved.
* In a cutback of quangos, 35 agencies will be combined to nine and less business inspections will take place.
* Single inspectorates for criminal justice, education and children's services, social care and health and local services.
* To address EU-inspired regulation, new guidelines for the implementation of EU law in the UK.
EMPLOYMENT
* Employment rate at highest level yet, with 50% growth in personal wealth, 300,000 more small businesses and 150,000 more self-employed.
* 2.1 million new jobs since 1997.
* £2,000 return to work bonus for single parents.
* £65m on employer training pilot scheme.
* New rules to encourage incapacity benefit claimants into work and reforms in housing benefit to help job creation.
DEFENCE
* Extra £400m expenditure.
* Extra compensation for injured troops.
* Iraq war, Afghanistan and war on terror cost £4.9bn.
TAXATION AND DUTY
* Stamp duty threshold doubled to £120,000 at midnight.
* Inheritance tax threshold raised from £263,000 to £275,000 this year, £285,000 next year and then to £300,000.
* Corporation tax and capital gains tax frozen.
* Freezes on air passenger duty, insurance premium tax, climate change levy and company car tax.
* Duty on a pint of beer to rise by 1p, a bottle of wine by 4p from Sunday. Spirits duty frozen.
* Duty on a packet of cigarettes rose by 7p from last night.
* Inflation duty increase on fuel to be deferred until September 1.
* New measures to combat avoidance of capital gains tax, VAT and other taxes.
* Tax exemption on the first £7,000 of savings in individual savings accounts to be extended to 2010.
* Full VAT refund for religious building renovations extended to 2008.
* In April, the personal income tax allowance will rise in line with inflation.
* New tax reliefs for films.
* Proposal to raise tax-free limit on goods brought in from outside the EU from £145 to £1,000.
CHILDREN/EDUCATION
* One million new childcare places, and paid maternity leave to rise to one year.
* From next year, the Government will offer help with early learning in every area for children who need it.
* Building programme for primary schools -over the next five years, total investment will be £9.4bn. 8,900 primary schools will be rebuilt or refurbished.
* Investment in the three-year schools IT programme raised to £1.67bn.
* Goal of education starting at age three and continuing until 18. Those in full-time education or training to be offered up to £75 a week in education allowances and benefits.
* £1.5bn programme for renewing further education colleges.
* Direct payments to schools to rise each year to 2008. Typical primary school will receive £31,000 in the coming year, while a typical secondary school will receive £98,500 next year, with further rises in subsequent years.
* VAT incurred by councils on children's centres and children's services will be refunded.
* Teach First programme, which offers outstanding graduates incentives to teach in challenging schools, to be extended to four more cities.
* Mr Brown announced funds to ensure that by 2006, every pupil has enterprise education.
PENSIONERS
* Every pensioner household paying council tax will receive a council tax refund of £200.
* Every community in the UK from next year will have free local bus travel for every pensioner and every disabled person.
* From today, charges on pensioners during hospital stays permanently abolished.
SPORT
* £27m for new national sports foundation.
ROYALS
* Memorial to the Queen Mother in The Mall
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