IRAQ
* £3bn special reserve set aside for the Armed Forces following the war in Iraq
* £330m for additional counter-terrorism measures at home
* £240m for humanitarian aid in Iraq
* £50bn for education for the world's poorest children
* Euro aid budget to be reformed
PUBLIC SPENDING
* By 2008, 88,000 more nurses and 25,000 more doctors, funded by NI increase
INFLATION
* New index of consumer prices for inflation
* Inflation target 2.5 per cent
* Regional inflation figures to be published
ECONOMIC FORECAST
* Growth forecast for 2003-4 is 2-2.5 per cent
* Fixed investment expected to grow to 4.75 per cent this year
* Domestic demand expected to grow by three per cent to 3.5 per cent this year
* 2004-5 growth expected to rise to between three per cent and 3.5 per cent
PRODUCTIVITY
* Productivity gap with Germany now reduced to four per cent, with France 16 per cent and eliminated with Japan
* Britain expected to be the fastest-growing economy in the G7
* Tax help for stem cell research
BUSINESS
* Three new tax relief measures to help small and medium-sized firms
* New £56,000 VAT tax threshold
* Corporation tax frozen
IT investment allowances extended
* New drive to reduce business regulations
ALCOHOL & TOBACCO
* Beer up 1p
* Wine up 4p a bottle
* Cider and sparkling wine tax frozen
* Spirits tax frozen
* 8p on a packet of cigarettes
* Bingo tax to be abolished on August 4
INCOME TAX
* Rates pegged.
INHERITANCE TAX
* Threshold up to £255,000
HOUSING
* Fixed rate mortgage market to be examined
* Stamp duty frozen.
* Crackdown on stamp duty tax avoidance
RELOCATION
* More public sector jobs to be transferred to the regions
VEHICLES
* Vehicle tax for lorries and motorcycles frozen
* On cars and vans, to rise by £5 by May
* Bio-ethanol duty to be cut by 20p in January 2005
* The 1.28p a litre rise in fuel duties deferred until October 1.
BENEFITS
* Jobcentres to get local discretionary powers
* From next April, new housing benefit rules for people taking up jobs
* Weekly signing-on to replace fortnightly rule
* New help for young offenders
* Incapacity benefit to rise by £19 a week
* £170m new help for training costs of people in work
* New measures to attract highly-skilled migrants
* Extra £20 a week for lone parents' job search
* More help for lone parents to get part-time work
BORROWING
* £32bn surplus forecast over the whole economic cycle
* Net borrowing for this year and future years would be £27bn, £24bn, £23bn, £22bn and £22bn.
EURO
* Assessment on five tests to be published in June
CHILDREN
* Goal of cutting child poverty by 50 per cent by 2010 set
* Trust fund to be set up for every newborn child born from today, with an initial endowment of £250, and assets available at the age of 18. Parents will be able to contribute to the fund.
PENSIONERS
* OAP "hotel charge" for hospital stays abolished
* Winter fuel payment increased by £100 to £300 for households where pensioners are over 80.
* From October all single pensioners with income below £139 a week and all couples below £203 a week will benefit from new pension Credit.
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