Chancellor George Osborne has announced government spending plans for 2015-16 and cuts to individual departmental budgets. Here is a summary of the main points.

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OVERALL SPENDING

Government spending to total £745bn

Further savings of £11.5bn needed

PAY AND JOBS

1% cap on public sector pay rises

Automatic progression pay to be ended in civil service, schools, hospitals, prisons and the police but not the armed forces

WELFARE

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New cap on elements of welfare spending from April 2015

Cap to be set in cash terms every four years

Housing benefit, tax credits, disability living allowance to be included

State pension to be excluded

Pensioners living in certain EU countries to lose winter fuel allowance under new "temperature test"

Work and pensions resource budget cut by 9.5%

Seven-day wait before job seekers can claim benefits

Claimants will have to attend language schools or benefits will be cut

LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITIES

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10% cut in resource budget

£3bn capital spending on new houses

£200m extra for troubled families initiative

Council tax bills in England frozen for 2014-15 and 2015-16

CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT

7% cut in resource budget

Elite sport to be protected

5% cut to budgets for museums and arts organisations

DEFENCE

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption George Osborne: Britain has "the finest armed forces in the world - and we intend to keep it that way"

Resource budget frozen at £24bn

1% real-terms increase in military equipment budget

Civilian posts to be cut, but no reduction in armed forces personnel

Procurement and private finance initiative (PFI) contracts renegotiated

Permanent funding for military covenant that supports UK troops and their families

POLICING and JUSTICE

Budget cut of "less than 6%" for police

Counter-terrorism budget protected

Home Office resource budget cut by 6%

Justice resource budget cut by 10%

Prison costs to be reduced by £180m and court costs by £200m

COUNTER-TERRORISM

3.4% increase in combined budget for intelligence agencies

TRANSPORT

9% cut in resource budget

Running costs of Transport for London and Network Rail to be cut

Increase in capital spending to £9.5bn

BUSINESS, SKILLS AND UNIVERSITIES

Resource budget cut by 6%

Student maintenance grants frozen

More money for apprenticeships and UK exports

Capital spending up by 9%

Science budget to be frozen at £4.6bn both more money for capital projects

£2bn growth fund for local enterprise partnerships

EDUCATION

Resource budget to rise to £53bn

Budget for schools in England protected

New National Funding Formula for schools to ensure fairer distribution of funding

Money for 180 new free schools

HEALTH

NHS budget in England to rise by 0.01% to £110bn

Rise in capital spending to £4.7bn

Joint £3bn commissioning plan between NHS and councils for social care

ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS

10% budget cut in departmental spending

More money for flood defences

ENERGY

8% cut in resource budget

Guarantees for new nuclear plants

Tax incentives for shale gas drilling

FOREIGN OFFICE AND INTERNATIONAL AID

8% cut in Foreign Office resource budget, but more money for new embassies

International development budget protected, rising by £809m to £11.1bn.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Total £50bn investment in new projects

Details to be announced by Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander on Thursday

SCOTLAND, NORTHERN IRELAND AND WALES

2% cut in grants to devolved administrations but extra capital investment powers

10% cut to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Offices

£31m of new funding for the Police Service of Northern Ireland

CABINET OFFICE