The new look departmental budgets

Chancellor George Osborne, in the last spending review of the current parliament, on Wednesday laid out his plan for squeezing an extra £11.5bn off 2015-16 departmental budgets, marking the sixth consecutive year of cuts.

With some areas of spending – such as the National Health Service, education and foreign aid – absolutely or partially ringfenced for political reasons, the axe has fallen on unprotected departments.

While the last spending review in 2010 spanned four years from 2011-12 to 2014-15, this review is for one year only, the period immediately after the next general election.

This interactive chart tracks which ministers took the biggest hit and how the cuts have been felt across the board.

But the cuts are far from over. Thanks to weak economic growth, economists believe they are likely to continue until at least 2017-18.