Policy paper

Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021: documents

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

• From: HM Treasury
• Published: 27 October 2021
• Last updated: 21 February 2023 — See all updates

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Documents

Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 (print)

Ref: ISBN 978-1-5286-2957-7, 3151, HC 822

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Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 (web accessible)

Ref: ISBN 978-1-5286-2957-7, 3151, HC 822

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Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 (HTML)

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Correction slip: Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021

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Correction slip: December 2021

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Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021: Policy costings

Ref: ISBN 978-1-911686-38-5, 3167

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

Ref: ISBN 978-1-911686-28-6, 3159

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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

Ref: ISBN 978-1-911686-26-2, 3157

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Spending Review 2021: Priority outcomes and metrics

Ref: ISBN 978-1-911686-29-3, 3160

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Table 5.1: policy decisions at Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021

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Table 5.2: measures announced at Spring Budget 2021 or earlier that will take effect from October 2021 or later

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Details

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:

• Residential Property Developer Tax: consultation response
• HM Treasury fundamental review of business rates: consultation response
• Consultation on aviation tax reform: consultation response
• Charter for Budget Responsibility: autumn 2021 update
• NIC Surface Water Flooding Study: Terms of Reference
• Remit letter to the National Infrastructure Commission
• Pensions tax relief administration: call for evidence outcome
• Shared Outcomes Fund Round Two
• Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 regional and national factsheets
• Monetary policy remit: Autumn Budget 2021
• Corporate re-domiciliation consultation
• The new alcohol duty system: consultation

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Published 27 October 2021
Last updated 21 February 2023 + show all updates

1. 21 February 2023

   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. 23 December 2021

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

3. 29 October 2021

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

4. 28 October 2021

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

5. 27 October 2021

   First published.