The speech

Chancellor Gordon Brown has promised an extra 60 billion pounds to improve our public services, with the biggest amounts going to schools and transport. But all of this comes at a price, he says there must be reform and change too.

Chancellor Gordon Brown's speech

Tory shadow chancellor Michael Howard's reaction to the spending review

The BBC's Andrew Marr reports

School spending

The Chancellor's main focus was on education. He's allocated an extra 15 billion pounds for Britain's classrooms, with 150 thousand pounds for every secondary school in the country.

The BBC's Education Correspondent Mike Baker reports

Do the sums add up?

The Prime Minister described Mr Brown's third spending review as a "defining moment" for the government and that the extra investment in public services was "absolutely essential", but can the country afford it?

The BBC's Economics Editor Evan Davis investigates

Brown's record

Gordon Brown has been insisting that the economy is still in a healthy state, and that recent problems like sliding stock-markets will not affect his public spending plans. In a three part series the BBC's Economics Editor Evan Davies looks at what is at stake.

Part One - The Chancellor's record

Part Two - Increasing productivity

Part Three - Public spending plans