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.