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Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021: documents

This is the Budget and Spending Review in full. You can find supporting and related documents below.

Documents

Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 (print)

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Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 (web accessible)

Correction slip: December 2021

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Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021: Policy costings

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Impact on households: distributional analysis to accompany Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021

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Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 data sources

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Statement of funding policy: funding the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive

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Spending Review 2021: Priority outcomes and metrics

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented his Autumn Budget and Spending Review to Parliament on Wednesday 27 October 2021.

Distributional analysis

This document sets out the distributional impact on households of tax, welfare and public service spending decisions announced since Spending Round 2019, including those announced at Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021. It also presents analysis of the wider economic context, focusing on trends in the household incomes and labour market – this includes estimates of the distribution of economic support provided to households in response to COVID-19.

Policy costings

This document sets out the assumptions and methodologies used in the government’s costing of policy decisions announced since Spring Budget 2021. For each decision it contains a description of the measure, the base, and the methodology for the costing (including relevant adjustments for behavioural responses). It highlights main areas of additional uncertainty.

Data sources

This document details all of the data sources used throughout the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 document. In order to be transparent, it informs readers of the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 document where the data used in the charts, tables and text comes from and how it has been calculated.

Statement of funding policy: funding the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive

This document sets out how the UK Government funds the devolved administrations and explains the other sources of funding available to them when they set their spending plans. This is the ninth edition of the Statement, which was first published in March 1999.

Spending Review 2021: Priority outcomes and metrics

This document sets out updated priority outcomes and metrics, agreed alongside Spending Review 2021. Priority outcomes also feature in the relevant lead department pages in Chapter 4 of the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 document. These outcomes and metrics will form the basis for departments’ Outcome Delivery Plans, covering 2022-25.

Also publishing alongside Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021:

Published 27 October 2021
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  1. A factual correction has been made to the Statement of Funding Policy to update the comparability factor for the Home Office. The correction relates specifically to the comparability factor for the Office of Security & Counter Terrorism programme. Devolved administration funding settlements for the 2021 Spending Review period are being adjusted accordingly, including for 2022-23 at Supplementary Estimates.

  2. Updated the main Autumn Budget and Spending Review publication. An additional correctional slip outlining the changes made has also been uploaded.

  3. Added updated Autumn Budget and Spending Review documents and a correction slip.

  4. Added HTML version of the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021.

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