• One-off £100 payment for up to 20 million households in council tax bands A-D in England to help deal with rising energy bills, with equivalent funding for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

• Standing charges – fixed daily fees customers pay regardless of usage – to be removed from household gas bills in England, Scotland and Wales, with costs added to the unit rate instead

• VAT cut on electricity bills extended to July

• A green levy - the Gas Shipper Obligation to fund hydrogen projects - to be removed from energy bills and put on to general taxation

• Freeze on fuel duty extended again to July

• Import taxes to be removed on more than 100 food products, including gherkins and marmalade, as well as kerosene and fertilisers

• A 55p per mile tax-free mileage rate for those driving up to 10,000 miles for work made permanent, with the rate rising from 25p per mile to 35p above that distance

• A new scheme taking 25% off electricity bills for 10,000 energy-intensive businesses to launch in April, with payments backdated for energy costs this year

• An extra 2% tax on income from savings and property rental from April

• Amount people can put into tax-free cash Isas (Individual Savings Accounts) to remain at £20,000 a year, with plans to lower the limit to £12,000 for under-65s scrapped

• Surcharge banks pay on their profits to rise from 3% to 6% for 15 months, starting in January

• Threshold at which High Street shops start paying business rates in England to be increased from £12,000 to £18,000, meaning businesses would pay no rates on properties with a rateable value below this level

• Taxes on gambling machines with stakes over £1 to rise from 20% to 25%

• Online marketplaces like Amazon, eBay and Temu to be made responsible for collecting VAT owed by sellers using their platforms

• All business rates to be retained locally by the end of the decade, with mayors to keep 20% of revenue from next year

• A share of income tax receipts to go to mayors from 2028

• Government to work with mayors to design a £1.5bn borrowing facility, enabling investment in larger projects

• Defence Investment Plan to be fully funded through a further 1% cut to capital budgets of other government departments, after Sir Keir Starmer only committed £10.3bn for the £15bn plan

• Details of how the government will meet a Nato commitment to spend 3.5% of GDP on defence by 2035 to be set out at next year's Spending Review, with a target date for 3% in 2030

• Extra £10bn of economic and military support for Ukraine

• Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicts the UK economy will grow by 1.2% this year, up from a previous estimate of 1.1%

• Growth then expected to slow to 1% next year, a downgrade from the watchdog's previous forecast of 1.6%, before lifting back to 1.6% in 2028

• Inflation – the rate prices rise – is predicted to average 3.1% this year and then 3.4% in 2027, a hike on previous forecasts, before declining to the government's 2% target in 2028

• Government borrowing is predicted to be higher than previously expected in every year of the latest forecast

• But borrowing as a proportion of GDP is forecast to fall to 4.2% this year, dipping each year of the forecast to 1.8% in 2030/31

• UK national debt set to rise from 96% of GDP this year to 97% in 2028/29, before falling back to 96% in 2031

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