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Policing
Police budgets in England protected from real-terms cuts, but forces expected to share resources.
Welfare
Abolition of planned £4.4 billion tax credit cuts
Welfare cuts maintained at £12 billion
Housing benefits to be capped at same level as private sector
Housing benefit and pension credits stopped for those who leave the country for more than a month
DWP budget slashed by 14 per cent
Tightened benefit conditions extended
A £3.35 a week rise to state pension but savings credit frozen to more than one million claimants
Health
NHS budget to rise almost £20 billion by 2021 to £120bn
NHS England to make £22 billion cuts
Student nurse grants scrapped and replaced with loans
Education
No further investment in England’s schools budget, but protected in real terms
The 30-hour free childcare subsidy limited to those working more than 16 hours a week
Business and Tax
Tampon tax — VAT charge on sanitary products remains
Business department funding cut by 17 per cent
Housing
A 3 per cent surcharge on stamp duty for buy-to-let properties and second homes
Local government
Local government spending freeze
Transport
A 50 per cent rise in capital funding of transport projects
Culture
Culture department slashed by 20 per cent
Prisons
Holloway women’s prison to be closed
