Spending programme

The main points.

The main points.

• A cap on business and domestic rates fixed for three years

• Measures to narrow industry's "productivity gap" with Britain

• Initiatives to encourage more than 600 companies to become exporters

• Inward investment commitments to create more than 6,500 jobs by 2011

• Boost educational attainment levels particularly at age 16

• Improve transport corridors especially within Belfast and towards the South's road network

• Investment in health services to cut cancer fatalities

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