Saturday 20 May 2017

Conservative manifesto

  • Saving £9 billion through the Red Tape Challenge and the One-In-Two-Out Rule.
  • listed companies will be required either to nominate a director from the workforce, create a formal employee advisory council or assign specific responsibility for employee representation to a designated non-executive director.
  • Give the Pensions Regulator new powers to issue punitive fines for those found to have wilfully left a pension scheme under-resourced and, if necessary, powers similar to those already held by the Insolvency Service to disqualify the company directors in question
  • The next Conservative government will legislate to make executive pay packages subject to strict annual votes by shareholders
  • we will introduce, for employees, a right to request information relating to the future direction of the company.
  • So we have launched a new £23 billion National Productivity Investment Fund (funding not listed)
  • Create UK sovereign wealth funds – (We anticipate early funds being created out of revenues from shale gas extraction, dormant assets, and the receipts of sale of some public assets)
  • We will legislate to change planning law for shale applications. Non-fracking drilling will be treated as permitted development
  • A greater percentage of the tax revenues from shale gas directly benefit the communities that host the extraction sites.
  • We will give local enterprise partnerships greater weight by backing them in law
  • We will hold a Great Exhibition of the North in 2018
  • So we will continue to commit the same cash [as the EU] total in funds for farm support until the end of the parliament
  • We will use the structural fund money that comes back to the UK following Brexit to create a United Kingdom Shared Prosperity Fund
  • We will place the BBC World Service and the British Council on a secure footing so they are able to promote the best of British values around the globe
  • So we will maintain the commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of our gross national income on assistance to developing nations and international emergencies.
  • Spend at least 2 per cent of GDP on defence and we will increase the defence budget by at least 0.5 per cent above inflation in every year of the new parliament
  • One year holiday on Employer National Insurance Contributions for firms hiring service personnel after they leave service
  • We will legislate to ensure that a form of identification must be presented before voting
  • We will enshrine victims’ entitlements in law, making clear what level of service they should expect from the police, courts and criminal justice system
  • We will invest over £1 billion to modernise the prison estate
  • Create a national community sentencing framework that punishes offenders and focuses on the measures that have a better chance of turning people around and preventing crime, such as curfews and orders that tackle drug and alcohol abuse
  • Building at least a hundred new free schools a year
  • We will prohibit councils from creating any new places in schools that have been rated either ‘inadequate’ or ‘requires improvement’ by Ofsted.
  • We will make it a condition for universities hoping to charge maximum tuition fees to become involved in academy sponsorship or the founding of free schools
  • We will make sure that no school has its budget cut as a result of the new formula
  • We will start by replacing 13,000 existing technical qualifications with new qualifications, known as T-levels, across fifteen routes
  • make sure that each student does a three-month work placement as part of their [T-level] course
  • We will establish new institutes of technology, backed by leading employers and linked to leading universities, in every major city in England
  • We will deliver our commitment to create 3 million apprenticeships for young people by 2020
  • a new right to request leave for training for all employees
  • Introduce a national retraining scheme. Under the scheme, the costs of training will be met by the government, with companies able to gain access to the Apprenticeship Levy to support wage costs during the training period.
  • We have no plans for further radical welfare reform in this parliament and will continue the roll-out of Universal Credit, to ensure that it always pays to be in work.
  • So for businesses employing former wards of the care system, someone with a disability, those with chronic mental health problems, those who have committed a crime but who have repaid their debt to society, and those who have been unemployed for over a year, we will offer a holiday on their employers’ National Insurance Contributions for a full year
  • We will increase the earnings thresholds for people wishing to sponsor migrants for family visas.
  • We will require companies with more than 250 employees to publish more data on the pay gap between men and women.
  • We will also ask large employers to publish information on the pay gap for people from different ethnic backgrounds.
  • We will legislate to give unemployed disabled claimants or those with a health condition personalised and tailored employment support.
  • We will therefore also legislate to enshrine a definition of domestic violence and abuse in law, providing the legal underpinning for everything in our new act.
  • Our aim will be to halve rough sleeping over the course of the parliament and eliminate it altogether by 2027
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  • We will go further. We will introduce a safeguard tariff cap that will extend the price protection currently in place for some vulnerable customers to more customers on the poorest value tariffs.
  • So we will keep our promise to maintain the Triple Lock until 2020, and when it expires we will introduce a new Double Lock, meaning that pensions will rise in line with the earnings that pay for them, or in line with inflation – whichever is highest.
  • We will also ensure that the state pension age reflects increases in life expectancy, while protecting each generation fairly.
  • [On social care ]This will ensure that, no matter how large the cost of care turns out to be, people will always retain at least £100,000 of their savings and assets, including value in the family home.
  • We will give workers a new statutory entitlement to carer’s leave
  • We will increase NHS spending by a minimum of £8 billion in real terms over the next five years
  • Building and upgrading primary care facilities, mental health clinics and hospitals in every part of England. Over the course of the next parliament, this will amount to the most ambitious programme of investment in buildings and technology the NHS has ever seen.
  • And we will increase the Immigration Health Surcharge, to £600 for migrant workers and £450 for international students, to cover their use of the NHS.
  • So we will review the operation of the internal market and, in time for the start of the 2018 financial year, we will make non-legislative changes to remove barriers to the integration of care
  • recruiting up to 10,000 more mental health professionals
  • We will deliver the reforms proposed in our Housing White Paper to free up more land for new homes
  • We will enter into new Council Housing Deals with ambitious, pro-development, local authorities to help them build more social housing [….]providing them with significant low-cost capital funding
  • In doing so, we will build new fixed-term social houses, which will be sold privately after ten to fifteen years with an automatic Right to Buy for tenants
  • We will reform Compulsory Purchase Orders to make them easier and less expensive for councils to use and to make it easier to determine the true market value of sites.
  • we will immediately institute a capital fund to help primary schools develop nurseries where they currently do not have the facilities to provide one
  • We will introduce a presumption that all new primary schools should include a nursery
  • We will demand all local authorities be commissioners of the highest-quality family support and child protection services, removing these responsibilities from the weakest councils and placing them in trust
  • at least one new institute of technology in the UK, dedicated to world-leading digital skills and developed and run in partnership with the tech industry.
  • We will give businesses the right to insist on a digital signature and the right to digital cancellation of contracts.
  • Our starting point is that online rules should reflect those that govern our lives offline
  • We will make clear the responsibility of platforms to enable the reporting of inappropriate, bullying, harmful or illegal content, with take-down on a comply-or-explain basis.
  • We will give people new rights to ensure they are in control of their own data, including the ability to require major social media platforms to delete information held about them at the age of 18
  • We will repeal Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2014, which, if enacted, would force media organisations to become members of a flawed regulatory system or risk having to pay the legal costs of both sides in libel and privacy cases, even if they win.
  • We will therefore create a new presumption of digital government services by default and an expectation that all government services are fully accessible online, with assisted digital support available for all public sector websites
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  • VERY, VERY LONG TERM POLCIES:
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  • our Universal Service Obligation will ensure that by 2020 every home and every business in Britain has access to high speed broadband
  • When we leave the European Union, we will fund the British Business Bank with the repatriated funds from the European Investment Fund.
  • with a further investment of £1 billion by 20/21 in mental health services
  • We plan to invest £178 billion in new military equipment over the next decade
  • By 2020, we will, as promised, increase the personal allowance to £12,500 and the higher rate to £50,000
  • We will continue to ensure that local residents can veto high increases in Council Tax via a referendum
  • Corporation Tax is due to fall to seventeen per cent by 2020
  • We will create a network of Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioners to head nine new regional overseas posts
  • Increase the National Living Wage to 60 per cent of median earnings by 2020
  • We will legislate for tougher regulation of tax advisory firms
  • we meet the current OECD average for investment in R&D – that is, 2.4 per cent of GDP – within ten years, with a longer-term goal of three per
  • We will double the Immigration Skills Charge levied on companies employing migrant workers, to £2,000 a year by the end of the parliament, using the revenue generated to invest in higher level skills training for workers in the UK.
  • Putting some £40 billion into transport improvements across the United Kingdom over the rest of this decade
  • invest £600 [in electric cars] million by 2020
  • We will get 1 million more people with disabilities into employment over the next ten years.
  • committing to upgrading all fuel poor homes to EPC Band C by 2030
  • We will adopt a “Breathing Space” scheme, with the right safeguards to prevent abuse, so that someone in serious problem debt may apply for legal protection from further interest, charges and enforcement action for a period of up to six weeks.
  • Where appropriate, they will be offered a statutory repayment plan to help them pay back their debts in a manageable way
  • we will deliver the new promise to give patients a definitive diagnosis within 28 days by 2020
  • We will meet our 2015 commitment to deliver a million homes by the end of 2020


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