Families and single parents: Extra £2.5 billion to help families. Working single parents to be guaranteed £179 a week. Minimum income for working families of £237 a week.

Working disabled single people guaranteed £194 a week. Working Families Tax Credit extended to single people. Tax credits for couples without children.

Child tax credit: The Child Tax Credit to be available to families with incomes of £58,000 and below and for the first year of a childs life, families earning up to £66,000 to get some help. Extra help with childcare - a family with two children on £35,000 a year could receive up to £50 a week in help. For all families with overall incomes of £50,000 or less the Child Tax Credit with child benefit will be £1,400 a year.

National Insurance: From April next year there will be additional one per cent National Insurance contributions from employers, employees and the self-employed on all earnings above £4,615.

Pensions: Five million pensioners to gain from pension Credit of around £400 a year. Average pensioner household is better off by £1,150 per year compared to 1997. Free TV licences for over-75s to remain and winter fuel allowance be at £200 every year of this parliament. Elderly taxpayers will be able to set the first £6,010 of income against tax, and £6,740 if 75 or over.

Schools: Secondary school headteachers to receive £114,000 to spend on priorities. Primaries to get £39,300.

Crime: £180 million extra for beating crime.

Cigarettes: To rise 6p a packet.

Inheritance tax: All estates below £250,000 to be exempt from inheritance tax.

Petrol: Fuel taxes frozen.

Car tax: Fees are frozen.

Drink: Duties on beer, spirits and wine frozen.

Duty on small breweries beer to be cut by half - equal to 14p a pint in time for World Cup.

Health: UK health spending to grow from this years £65.4 billion to £72.1 billion and by 2007-8 to £105.6 billion. NHS to get five-year financial settlement. 43 per cent rise over five years in NHS spending.

New incentives for hospital performance. For first time in NHS history independent audit, inspections and scrutiny of complaints. Annual report to Parliament from new independent auditor to account for expenditure together with local reports to show link between money spent and results obtained.

Income tax: Allowances to be indexed.

Business: Small Companies Tax rate cut from 20p to 19p with immediate effect.

Corporation Tax starting rate cut for small firms with profits of less than £10,000 from 10p to zero.

Capital Gains Tax to be cut from this April from 20 per cent for business assets held for one year or more and to 10 percent for assets held for more than two years.

VAT: Flat rate scheme to cut form filling for 500,000 small firms. Also automatic relief on bad debts. Government to provide new funding to help small firms to get online.

Green policies: Electricity produced from green power stations to be exempt from climate change levy. Capital allowances for investment in green technology to be 100.

North Sea Oil: North Sea royalties to be abolished

Bingo: Tax free betting extended to bingo.

Sport: New tax relief for amateur clubs. £20 million extra for sporting groups.

Government's record: Lowest interest rates and inflation for 40 years. Lower unemployment rate than America and Japan. 2.2 per cent growth in 2001. Inflation target of 2.5 per cent and growth target in 2002-3 of 2 per cent to 2.5 per cent. £37 billion of debt repaid in 2000-1.