BBC licence fee frozen til 2017
The age of retirement will increase to 66 as soon as 2016, could rise to 68 by 2038 and even to 70 in the decades following that.
Child benefit gone in households where main earner earns over 45k
Means tested benefits so cuts for anyone with savings of 16k and over. Means tested incapacity benefit
Increase in rail prices
Cuts in the road safety grant so speed camera fines create extra revenue
Recruitment freezes in ministry of justice and relocation out of london
Around 14,000 prison officers, probation staff and legal officials will go. Some 157 magistrates' and county courts in England and Wales face being scrapped, while the Legal Aid budget looks ripe for severe cuts. Victim support spending may also be hit
Less short prison sentences, more probation
No cuts in international aid, in fact they are pledging more of our money but admin costs to be halved
The department scrapped the £6.5m Global Development Engagement Fund, a scheme aimed at community groups – ranging from gardening clubs and adventure camps to toddler groups and amateur performing artists – for projects on ‘development awareness-raising’ in the UK. It also scrapped 15 schemes judged to have been failing for up to two years.
Increased visa fees
11000 police job cuts
A quango with a £550 million a year budget, the National Policing Improvement Agency, is widely expected to be scrapped.
The UK Border Agency will also have to make savings from its £1.6 billion budget at a time when the Government’s cap on immigration levels will reduce income from visa fees.
The Department of Health has been promised a small real-terms increase. However, the rate of growth is likely to be significantly lower than the health service is used to - over its entire history, annual increases in spending have averaged four per cent a year in real terms. Meanwhile demand from an ageing population, and advances in costly drugs will rise.
As a result, NHS organisations expect to make a total of £20bn in savings over three years. Two tiers of NHS management will go, as will the NHS Direct helpline, while GPs will run their own budgets.
The Government says more than £1 billion will be saved by halving the size of NHS bureaucracy in four years. 150 primary care trusts and 10 health authorities will be scrapped. However, redundancy payouts to get rid of so many managers will be expensive. Quangos such as the Health Protection Agency will be culled. Funding for a £75 million public campaign against obesity and drinking is to be stopped, with food and drinks companies asked to foot the bill.
Major programmes to reduce the number of hospitals dealing with the most serious cases are likely to be agreed, with cuts to Accident & Emergency and maternity services.
The coalition has pledged not to allow overall numbers of frontline workers fall, but that could still mean major job cuts in many parts of the country, and the use of cheaper groups of staff.
The Education Maintenance Allowance – giving teenagers £30 a week to remain in college beyond the age of 16 – will also be scrapped in favour of more “targeted support”.
The schools budget is actually being increased from £35billion to £39bn a year. The Coalition has also pledged a spend £2.5bn on a “pupil premium” to encourage the best schools to admit pupils from poor backgrounds. In addition, the poorest children will also be given access to 15 hours worth of free childcare every week.
Although Labour’s £55bn Building Schools for the Future programme has been abolished, the Coalition has pledged to spend £15.8bn improving and refurbishing the school estate.
Coalition will stop all payments to Child Trust Funds by January, saving between £320m and £520m a year.
The MoD's budget has been cut £4 billion to £33.5 billion, by retiring the £3.6 billion Nimrod reconnaissance aircraft, the Aircraft carrier Ark Royal, the Navy’s Harrier force, and the £1 billion Astor-Sentinel surveillance aircraft.
The Armed Forces will lose 7,000 soldiers, 5,000 sailors, 5,000 airmen, while MoD civilian employee numbers will be trimmed by 25,000.
In addition 600 tanks, armoured vehicles and artillery and four frigates and destroyers will be retired, while five Army headquarters will be closed
Right now Bob Neill, the Local Government minister, is working out next year’s settlement to help councils manage a planned freeze in council tax. The freeze in council tax could mean that other services suffer more.
The Local Government Association has warned that councils could be left with an annual shortfall of between £12.5bn and £20bn by 2014-5 if no changes were made to the way public services are delivered.
Other non-statutory services funded by the department are also likely to be under threat, such as meals-on-wheels services for the elderly and adult social care.
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Oh dear, yeh im a bit worried about the police and health cuts BUT i suppose this is the mess that the last Government left. i totally agree Mario its all a bit much too soon. i work in the public sector and i can tell you it looks grim for social services over the next 3 yrs 
