Below are the main points of Chancellor Gordon Brown's 2002 Spending Review.

Headlines

• 6% increase in education budget year-on-year, reaching �58bn in 2005/6
• 2.5% a year increase in real terms spending on all public services, excluding increases in health spending already announced
• More cash for the home office, defence, culture and sport, as well as education
• More powers to take over failing schools, prisons and other institutions
• By 2006, �61bn a year more to improve public services

Education

• Cash to modernise schools to increase from �2.25bn a year to �4.5bn a year by 2006
• All secondary schools to receive �50,000 a year extra
• Extra annual payments of �125,000 for 1,400 secondary schools, tied to new performance targets
• Typical primary school will receive �10,000 a year more, boosting their annual direct payment to �50,000
• Scheme to pay students �1,500 a year for staying on at school beyond their GCSEs to be extended from September
• In total, spending per pupil will rise from �3,500 a year to �4,900 a year by 2005/6, an increase of 50% on 1997 levels

The Home Office

• Home Office budget up from �10bn to �13.5bn by 2006, an increase of �3.5bn
• Cash will be used to speed up asylum process and increase police numbers

Culture and sport

• Budget increase for Department of Culture, Media & Sport from �1.3bn to �1.6bn by 2006
• Cash used to keep museum entry free and invest in local sports and arts projects
• New three-year fund of �125m for voluntary organisations

Children and communities

• New integrated budget for childcare and early years learning, worth �1.5bn by 2006. Full details to be announced
• Extra 250,000 childcare places
• By October 2004 every three- and four-year-old will have a nursery place
• Budget for Children's Fund, which helps vulnerable children, increased to �200m a year
• More children's centres in local communities
• Expansion of Sure Start scheme

Pensioners and the disabled

• Raise Disability Rights Commission budget by 14% by 2006
• New pension credit to nearly half of all pensioners, �14 a week for single pensioners
• 6% increase in social services budget to boost services for the elderly

Local authorities and housing

• Increase in local authorities' budget by 4.2% a year
• Housing budget to increase to �5.9bn a year by 2006, a 105% increase on 1997 level
• New social housing and homes for key workers in south-east England and cash to upgrade old properties
• Increasing the Neighbourhood Renweal Fund to �525m a year

Public service reform

• Underperforming local authorities and prisons face being taken over
• Poor performing schools will also be taken over
• More cash and freedom for high-performing institutions
• Departments must meet higher standards or face budget cuts
• New Police Standards and housing watchdogs to be created to boost standards
• Health and social care inspectorate also to be created

Business

• �38m more for sustainable energy initiatives
• Expand Enterprise education to 3,500 secondary schools
• Expand modern apprenticeships to 300,000 by 2004
• Office of Fair Trading budget to increase from �34m to �55m
• Expand work permit scheme for key workers
• Raise the Small Business Service budget

Transport

• 12% increase in transport budget, from �7.7bn a year to �11.6bn by 2006

Farming and the regions

• Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs budget to go up 2.7% a year, from �2.5bn to �2.9bn, by 2006
• Cash to be spent on promoting sustainable farming and improving flood defences
• Major reform of planning to speed up development in high unemployment areas
• Regional Development Agency (RDA) budgets up from �1.6bn a year to �2bn
• RDA's role to be strengthened in tourism and transport

Science and higher education

• Higher Education fund rising to �90m a year
• 10% increase in funding for science teaching
• New national centre for excellence in science teaching

International development

• UK aid budget to increase from �3.3bn last year to �4.9bn by 2006

Foreign office

• Budget to go up from �1.3bn to �1.5bn by 2006
• Cash to be spent on increased role for British Council and BBC World Service, whose budget will be �38m a year higher by 2006

Defence

• Defence budget up from �29.3bn to �32.8bn by 2006, biggest increase in 20 years