The CSR at a glance

The main points of Chancellor Gordon Brown's second Comprehensive Spending Review.

Economy

Current government surplus of £20.4bn is healthier than forecast at the time of the Budget

Channelling the proceeds of the sale of the mobile phone frequencies into repaying the national debt will save £1bn of interest payments by 2003-4

Education

Spending will rise by 6.6% a year on average

Schools, colleges and universities will receive an extra £12bn from 2001-2004

Funding per pupil will rise by over £300 in real terms since 1997

A typical English secondary school will see its direct funding rise from £40,000 to £60,000 in 2001-2

A typical junior school will see a rise from £9,000 to £20,000 in 2001-2

At risk children will benefit from a National Children's Fund with a budget of £450m

Spending on child care will rise from £66m to £200m by 2003-2004

Health

Spending will increase by the already announced £13bn, further details of health spending will be published in the national health plan

Crime

The Home Office budget will increase from £8.2bn in 2000 to £10.6bn in 2003-4

£316m will be spent reforming the police service in Northern Ireland

Money spent tackling drug use will grow 10% a year, reaching £966m by 2004

Transport

Spending will rise from £4.9bn in 2000 to £6bn next year, to £7.4bn the year after and £9.1bn in 2003-4.

Rural transport will receive £95m a year

Government

Regional Development Agencies will receive £500m a year extra

New funds will ensure all government services are online by 2005

Culture

Spending will rise by 4.3% in real terms

Science spending rise will by 5.4% in real terms

Social security

The New Deal for young unemployed will be made permanent

The chancellor predicted anti-benefit fraud measures will save £1bn a year

By 2004 £60m will be have been spent on encouraging an additional one million people to become volunteers

An extra £1.6 bn a year by 2003-04 to go on social housing

Defence

The defence budget will rise from just under £23bn billion this year to nearly £25bn in the financial year 2003-2004

There will also be £200m extra for defence this year in addition to the extra money in the CSR

Foreign Office and International Development

Foreign Office spending will rise from £1.2bn billion to £1.32bn in 2003-4

Funding for BBC world service will rise from £174m to £210m by 2003-4

£85m will be spent assisting the clean-up at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the former Soviet Union

The international aid budget will rise by 6.2% a year

Agriculture

The agriculture budget will rise from £1bn to £1.35bn by 2004

Food Standards Agency budget will rise from £87m to £111m by 2004

Scotland

Scotland will receive £3.4bn a year by 2003-2004, an annual rise of 4.4%

Wales

Funding for Wales will increase by 5.4% a year

£149m will be transferred to the National Assembly over three years from the European Social Fund allocations for Wales

Northern Ireland

The Northern Ireland Executive's budget will increase from this year's levels by £361m in 2001-2002, rising to an increase of £988m by 2003-2004