Spending Review: Department budget forecasts and main measures

Department for Education

• Budget to rise from £58.2bn in 2015/16 to £61.6bn in 2019/20

Main measures:  

• £300m to deliver the expansion of free childcare, plus £50m of capital funding
• Tax-free childcare to be available to parents working 16 hours a week minimum and earning less than £100,000
• Protect the schools budget in real terms, which will enable a per-pupil protection for the Dedicated Schools Grant, pupil premium and free school meals
• Make around £600m savings from the Education Services Grant
• Provide 600,000 additional school places and rebuild/refurbish more than 500 schools over parliament through £23bn capital investment
  
  

Department for Communities and Local Government

• Budget to rise from £4.6bn in 2015/16 to £4.7bn by 2019/20

Main measures:

• DCLG budget to be cut by 29 per cent in real terms
• Local government grant reductions of £6.1bn by 2019/20 – however forecast increases to other sources of income will mean local government spending will be higher in cash terms by 2019/20
• Plans to consult on changes to the local government finance system
• Review of local government duties on school support

Ministry of Justice

• Budget to fall from £6.5bn in 2015/16 to £6bn in 2019/20

Main measures:

• Savings to the Ministry of Justice administrative budget of 50 per cent by 2019/20
• Ministry of Justice resource savings of 15 per cent by 2019/20
  
  

Cabinet Office

• Budget to rise from £400m in 2015/16 to £600m in 2019/20

Main measures:

• Expand the National Citizen Service, enabling it to deliver up to 300,000 places annually by 2019/20
• Additional £20m for social impact bonds with the focus on funding locally designed schemes and to help tackle issues such as youth unemployment
• £15m raised through a levy to fund women's health charities
• Cabinet Office resource savings of £60m by 2019/20