The Home Office and Department for International Development will both receive massively increased budgets but defence and diplomacy will do less well.

Under the chancellor's spending plans announced on Monday, homeland security will get a big boost.

Gordon Brown told MPs that before the September 11 terrorist attacks Britain spent £950 million per year of defending its borders.

He revealed that by 2007/08 this will be £2.1 billion, a 10 per cent average annual increase on the £1.5 billion currently being spent.

And Home Office spending will rise from £12.7 billion this year to £14.9 billion in 2007/08, a 2.7 per cent rise, paying for 20,000 new community support officers and more police constables.

Overseas aid was the other big winner, with the Department for International Development getting a large budget rise.

By 2008 the ministry will spend 300 per cent more on Africa than it did in 1997, with funding increasing from £450 million to £1.25 billion.

The department's total spending will also rise from its current £3.8 billion per year to £5.3 billion at the end of the spending round.

And responding to calls from campaigners, the chancellor said the rate of this 140 per cent increase from 1997 would continue until Britain met its target of spending 0.7 per cent of national income in 2013 or earlier.

But the Ministry of Defence will only get a small real terms average annual budget rise of 1.4 per cent, as will the Foreign Office.

Brown wants to get tough with the poor procurement record of the MoD and what he sees as frivolous diplomatic spending.

But he did fend off charges of neglecting overstretched troops by boasting that the £3.7 billion total defence budget increase over three years was the best for 20 years.

Science

Another big winner was science.

Brown promised science spending would double from its 1997 level, rising from £3.9 billion this year to £5 billion in 2008.

This will go towards extra science teaching in schools, higher salaries for researchers and more science-industry link-ups with spending rising to 2.5 per cent of national income by 2013.

The Department for Transport will get an average annual increase of 4.5 per cent, with the ministry's budget rising by more than 60 per cent than the Tories left in 1997.

And the deputy prime minister will get an extra £1.3 billion to spend on housing in England.

By 2008 his department will put £7.2 billion into property, compared with £5.9 billion now, a 100 per cent increase on 1997.

There will be a 50 per cent increase in investment in low-cost social housing, with an emphasis on the Midlands and North.

Other big rises went to the culture department, which will get a 2.4 per cent average annual increase to fund greater access to museums and the arts.

And social services will get a 2.7 per cent average rise for many of the chancellor's pet projects such as the winter fuel allowance.

While the health and education budgets had already been announced, Brown used his keynote statement to reveal funding for nursery places for two-year-olds and 2,500 children's centres by 2008.