The Welsh Assembly will decide how to spend the extra funds

The extra share, announced on Wednesday, follows increased spending on education in England.

The National Union of Teachers in Wales has called for the money to match spending on education in England.

The assembly government has the power to identify its own priorities and allocate the money accordingly.

"It means that money Gordon Brown originally thought of as for education could, in Wales, be spent on all sorts of other services," aid NUT Cymru Secretary, Gethin Lewis.

"We need greater transparency in the funding of schools.

"Headteachers and parents need to be confident that schools in Wales are funded at least as well, if not better than their English counterparts."

Nearly 270,000 householders over 70 in Wales will benefit with �100 to help them pay their council tax bills Welsh Secretary Peter Hain

The chancellor also announced the government is to move civil service jobs from London and the South-East of England to the nations and the regions of the UK.

The move could lead to more than a thousand jobs at the Office for National Statistics being transferred to Newport.

But Wales will also lose civil service jobs - a share of posts at the Department for Work and Pensions and the newly-merged Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise.

Reacting to Gordon Brown's Budget, Welsh Secretary Peter Hain, said: "Today's Budget delivers an agenda to give the people of Wales better value in our hospitals and schools and other vital services.

"The Budget will also mean that nearly 270,000 householders over 70 in Wales will benefit with �100 to help them pay their council tax bills and I am certain that this will be welcomed by some of the most vulnerable people in our communities."