Chancellor George Osborne today helped Scotland's oil and whisky industries and assured Glasgow the city deal would continue as he delivered his final Budget before the General Election.

Mr Osborne announced £1.3billion of support for the oil industry, which he said would help the troubled North Sea sector that has been severely hit by the world oil prices cut.

And he delivered good news for motorists and beer drinkers - cancelling September's planned Fuel Duty increase and cutting 1p off the price of a pint of beer for the third year in a row.

At the end of a 59-minute speech he told the Commons: "This is the Budget for Britain - the comeback country."

Making a reference to last year's independence referendum, Mr Osborne declared: "An independent Scotland would never have been able to afford such a package of support."

Among the key announcements were a personal tax free allowance rise, to £10,800 next year and then £11,000 in the year after next.

Mr Osborne also announced a new savings allowance, with the first £1000 in savings account will be tax free.

In a Budget littered with 'key phrases', Mr Osborne said: "The sun is starting to shine and we are fixing the roof . Britain is walking tall again."

There was good news for Glasgow as the Chancellor revealed the city deal would continue and announced similar deals for Aberdeen and Inverness.

He then claimed the UK's richest people are making the biggest contribution to cutting the deficit.

He said: "I said we would all be in this together and here is the proof.

"Compared to five years ago, inequality is lower, child poverty is down, youth unemployment is down, pensioner poverty is at its lowest level ever, the gender pay gap has never been smaller, payday loans are capped, and zero hours contracts regulated."

The statement sparked outrage from the opposition, with Ed Balls and Ed Miliband looking furious with Mr Osborne's claim living standards higher now than 2010.

The Chancellor also revealed the scale of the cuts needed in the next Parliament, with £13bn from Government departments, £12bn from the welfare budget, and £5bn from tax avoidance/evasion.

"We have done it in this Parliament, we can do it in the next", he said.

He also announced a cut in lifetime pension allowance from £1.25m to £1m, saying it would save about £600m a year.

The Commons was noisy and Deputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle was repeatedly forced to step in and askMPs for quiet.

The first interruption came just five minutes into the Budget.

Once he was allowed to continue, Osborne made a unionist point when talking about the design of the new pound coin, which features a rose, thistle, leek and shamrock.

"We are all part of one United Kingdom," he declared.

Osborne said living standards have risen during he last parliament and ordinary families are around £900 better off.

There were loud cheers from the Conservative side and jeers from the opposition as he spoke about living standards.

He added: "There's a promise that economic revival will help those people who may have suffered most during the recession.

"It's the oldest rule of economic policy.

"It's the lowest paid who suffer most when the economy fails and it's the lowest paid who benefit when you turn that economy around."

The Deputy Speaker was forced to step in again, around 20 minutes into the speech, as the cheers and jeers continued.

Hoyle said: "We want to get through this budget. The sooner we get through it, the sooner we can debate it."

As he came to the end of his speech, the Chancellor announced cider duty would come down 2%, as will the duty on Scotch whisky and other spirits.

Wine duty was frozen.

For drinkers, beer duty was cut by 1p. Mr Osborne declared: "More pubs saved, jobs created, families supported.

"And a penny off a pint for the third year in a row."

The Chancellor announced tobacco duties would not be changing.

Meanwhile, regimental charities for servicemen and women who fought in Afghanistan will receive an extra £75m.

Mr Osborne repeatedly underlined the importance of manufacturing in Britain.

He said: "Britain's manufacturing output has grown more than four and a half times faster than it did in the entire decade before the crisis."

The Chancellor added: "We are seeing a truly national recovery."

Osborne also said that on the basis of figures announced in the Budget, "under this government, 1,000 jobs have been created every single day."

He also promised more apprenticeships as he said growth forecast in 2015 was forecast to be 2.3% this time last year.

It was revised upwards to 2.4% in the autumn statement and today the GDP growth forecast for 2015 is higher still at 2.5%, the Chancellor announced.

The OBR has also revised up next year's GDP forecast to 2.3%.

Meanwhile, the squeeze on public spending is to end a year earlier than planned, with public spending increasing in 2019/20, in line with economy.

On inheritance tax, Osborne said: "We will conduct a review on the avoidance of inheritance tax through the use of deeds of variation."

But the Budget did not please Labour leader Ed Miliband. In his reply, he said: Ed Miliband: "This is a Budget people won't believe from a Government that's not on their side.

"People are earning less at the end of this parliament than they were at the beginning."