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Just 5% of primary schools and 2% of secondary schools will see a real-terms increase.

How spending cuts are hitting schools – despite coalition vow to protect them 2011

Schools with the most deprived intakes were likely to see real-terms increases in funding, she said.

Careers service and literacy hit by schools funding cuts 2011

The report also refers to personal backing for real-terms defence budget increases from both Fox and David Cameron, adding: "Such support is meaningless without a concrete commitment that these increases will be delivered … If the ambition of a real-term funding increase is not realised, we will have failed our armed forces."

Cross-party committee attacks defence cuts 2011

With inflation of 2.4%, only one institution sees a real-terms rise in income: the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where the teaching grant of £3.2m is dwarfed by £17.7m funding for research.

England's newer universities face biggest cuts as teaching budgets slashed 2011

Alexander says that the budget will set out "further real-terms progress towards our goal of taking anyone earning less than £10,000 out of tax altogether".

Budget 2011: Osborne will ease the pain while keeping his cutting edge 2011

The majority of funded organisations will face a 6.9% across-the-board cash cut next year, with a 14.9% real-terms cut to the money available for the regular funding of organisations effective by 2014/15.

'Lighter than expected' cuts to publishing funding Benedicte Page 2010

Far from being the deepest cuts in modern times, the Institute for Fiscal Studies calculates the proposed 3.6% real-terms cuts in public spending over fives years are only the deepest since 1976.

After Bank Levy, Osborne's Banker Bashing Must Stop Simon Nixon 2010

HM Revenue & Customs has had to deal with real-terms cuts to its budget every year since its formation.

HM Revenue & Customs under fire for breakdown in service 2011

George Osborne was being disingenuous when he only announced the good news of a 15% cut to what he calls frontline arts – that's regularly funded organisations (RFOs) – and, of course, the devil turned out to be in the detail: a £457m real-terms loss to Arts Council coffers over four years.

Spending review cuts will bruise, but artists must not fight alone Lyn Gardner 2010

The average British household has seen its real-terms income fall by £365 since 2008 in the worst three-year squeeze since the early 1980s, the research said.

George Osborne to clamp down on tax avoidance 2011