Budget by the numbers

Key facts and figures from Bill English's "road to recovery" Budget.

$2.9 billion - new core Crown spending.

11 - years the automatic Government contributions to the Cullen superannuation fund are forecast to be suspended for.

180,000 - homes built before 2000 will have access to the $323.3 million home insulation programme over the next four years.

$1800 - maximum grant under the home insulation programme, unless you have a community services card (then it is $3000).

600 - new police officers on the street by 2011, half in Counties-Manukau.

43 per cent - forecast gross debt as a percentage of GDP at its peak in 2016/7.

70 per cent - the percentage of GDP Treasury says gross debt would have risen to by 2022/3 without the measures in this Budget.

8.0 per cent - forecast unemployment at its peak in the third quarter of 2010.

$2 billion - the amount the Government says was freed up over the next four years by "line-by-line" reviews of departmental spending.

$298.6 million - cut over the next four years from the $621 million funding boost for the Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry announced in last year's Budget.

$750 million - new health spending per year.

7 - forecast quarters of recession

4494 - words in Finance Minister Bill English's Budget speech.