- · Saving the NHS by putting a penny in the pound on Income Tax to give the NHS and social care services the cash injection they need.
- · Transforming mental health care with waiting time standards to match those in physical health care.
- · In the longer term and as a replacement for the 1p Income Tax rise, commission the development of a dedicated health and care tax
- · End the public sector pay freeze for NHS workers.
- · Reinstate student nurse bursaries.
- · Roll out the Liaison and Diversion programme nationally
- · Raise the amount people can earn before losing Carer’s Allowance from £110 to £150 a week, and reduce the number of hours’ care per week required to qualify.
- · Make Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention available on the NHS.
- · Develop a strategy to tackle childhood obesity, including restricting the marketing of junk food to children, restricting TV advertising before the 9pm watershed and closing loopholes in the sugary drinks tax.
- · Encourage the traffic-light labelling system for food products and publication of information on calorie, fat, sugar and salt content in restaurants and takeaways.
- · Introduce mandatory targets on sugar reduction for food and drink producers
- · Introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol
- · Increase our Early Years Pupil Premium to £1,000 per pupil per year.
- · £7 billion more for school and college budgets (Not sure where the funds for this are coming from)
- · Guarantee that all teachers in state-funded schools will be fully qualified or working towards qualified teacher status (QTS) from January 2019
- · Scrap the planned expansion of grammar schools and devolve all capital monies for new school spaces to local authorities
- · Allow Ofsted to inspect both local authorities and academy chains.
- · Include in SRE teaching about sexual consent, LGBT+ relationships, and issues surrounding explicit images and content.
- · Challenge gender stereotyping and early sexualisation, working with schools to promote positive body image and break down outdated perceptions of gender appropriateness of particular academic subjects
- · Extend free school meals to all children in primary education (un-costed)
- · Reinstate maintenance grants for the poorest students
- · Create individual accounts for funding mature adult and part-time learning and training, and provide for all adults individual access to all necessary career information, advice and guidance.
- · Facilitate across the UK an effective and comprehensive system for credit transfer and recognition of prior learning and qualifications.
- · New direct spending on housebuilding to help build 300,000 homes a year by 2022 (borrowed money)
- · £5 billion of initial capital for a new British Housing and Infrastructure Development Bank
- · End the following: The cutting of Corporation Tax from 20% to 17%, Capital Gains Tax cuts, Capital Gains Tax extended relief, The Marriage Allowance and The raising of the Inheritance Tax threshold
- · Create a new ‘start-up allowance’ to help those starting a new business with their living costs in the crucial first weeks of their business.
- · Extend transparency requirements on larger employers to include publishing the number of people paid less than the living wage and the ratio between top and median pay.
- · Stamp out abuse of zero-hours contracts. We will create a formal right to request a fixed contract and consult on introducing a right to make regular patterns of work contractual after a period of time
- · scrapping employment tribunal fees.
- · Strengthen worker participation in decision-making, including staff representation on remuneration committees, and the right for employees of a listed company to be represented on the board
- · Require binding and public votes of board members on executive pay policies.
- · Devolve further revenue-raising powers away from Westminster, to regions from Cornwall to the north-east
- · Ensuring that four million properties receive insulation retrofits by 2022
- · A diesel scrappage scheme, and a ban on the sale of diesel cars and small vans in the UK by 2025 (no cost provided)
- · Extending ultra-low-emission zones to 10 more towns and cities.
- · Set up a British Housing and Infrastructure Development Bank to mobilise investment into the low-carbon and sustainable infrastructure – No amount mentioned
- · Continue to back new entrants to the energy market, aiming for at least 30% of the household market to be supplied by competitors to the ‘Big 6’ by 2022.
- · Establish a £2 billion flood-prevention fund focused on providing support for small community and council-led schemes (not sure where fund coming from)
- · Significantly increase the amount of accessible green space, including completion of the coastal path, and create a new designation of national nature parks to protect up to one million acres of accessible green space valued by local communities.
- · Introduce stronger penalties for animal cruelty offences, increasing the maximum sentencing from six months to five years, and bring in a ban on caged hens.
- · Clamp down on illegal pet imports through legal identification requirements for online sales
- · Funding research into alternatives to animal testing
- · Develop safe, effective, humane and evidence-based ways of controlling bovine TB, including by investing to produce workable vaccines
- · Pass a Zero-Waste Act, including legally binding targets for reducing net consumption of key natural resources
- · Establish a statutory waste recycling target of 70% in England and extend separate food waste collections to at least 90% of homes by 2022
- · Building on the success of our plastic bag charge, introduce a 5p charge on disposable coffee cups to reduce waste
- · Extending free childcare to all two-year-olds
- · Introducing a new Young Person’s Bus Discount Card for young people aged 16–21, giving a two-thirds discount on bus travel.
- · Expand Shared Parental Leave with an additional ‘use it or lose it’ month
- · Separate employment support from benefits administration
- · Take 13,000 children out of poverty by letting both parents earn before their Universal Credit is cut and also reverse cuts to the Family Element
- · Reversing the cuts to Work Allowances in Universal Credit, enabling people to work for longer before their benefits are cut
- · Uprate working-age benefits at least in line with inflation.
- · Abandon the two-child policy on family benefits
- · reversing cuts to housing benefit for 18-21-year-olds
- · increase the rates of Jobseeker’s Allowance and Universal Credit for those aged 18-24 at the same rate as minimum wages.
- · Increase Local Housing Allowance (LHA) in line with average rents in an area
- · Scrap the ‘bedroom tax’
- · Withdraw eligibility for the Winter Fuel Payment from pensioners who pay tax at the higher rate
- · retain the free bus pass for all pensioners
- · Maintain the ‘triple lock’
- · End the Voluntary Right to Buy pilots
- · Lift the borrowing cap on local authorities and increase the borrowing capacity of housing associations so that they can build council and social housing.
- · Create a community right of appeal in cases where planning decisions go against the approved local plan
- · Eable local authorities to: - Levy up to 200% council tax on second homes and ‘buy to leave empty’ investments from overseas. –
- · Enforce housebuilding on unwanted public sector land. –
- · Penalise excessive land-banking when builders with planning permission have failed to build after three years. –
- · Allow councils to End the Right to Buy if they choose.
- · introducing a new Rent to Own model where rent payments give tenants an increasing stake in the property, owning it outright after 30 years – Not sure who is building these
- · banning lettings fees for tenants, capping upfront deposits
- · stopping developers advertising homes abroad before they have been advertised in the UK.
- · Give tenants first refusal to buy the home they are renting
- · Remove the requirement to hold local referenda for council tax changes
- · Capping the maximum amount able to be bet on fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs) at one time to £2
- · Ensure that every property in the UK is provided, by 2022, with a superfast broadband connection with a download speed of 30Mbps, an upload speed of 6Mbps, and an unlimited usage cap
- · Invest £2 billion in innovative solutions to ensure the provision of highspeed broadband across the rural UK
- · Set up a £2 billion Rural Services Fund of capital investment to enable communities to establish a local base from which to co-locate services such as council offices, post offices, children’s centres, libraries and visiting healthcare professionals.
- · Guarantee the freedom of people to wear religious or cultural dress, and tackle the growing incidence of Islamophobic hate crime.
- · Decriminalise the sale and purchase of sex
- · Address period poverty by providing free sanitary products to girls at school
- · Introduce a digital bill of rights that protects people’s powers over their own information, supports individuals over large corporations, and preserves the neutrality of the internet.
- · Increase community policing in England and Wales by giving an additional £300 million a year to local police forces
- · Require all front-line officers to wear body cameras on duty
- · End imprisonment for possession of illegal drugs for personal use, diverting those arrested for possession of drugs for personal use into treatment and education (adopting a health-based approach), or imposing civil penalties
- · Introduce legal, regulated market for cannabis. We would introduce limits on potency and permit cannabis to be sold through licensed outlets to adults over the age of 18.
- · Offer safe and legal routes to the UK for refugees to prevent them from making dangerous journeys
- · Expand the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme to offer sanctuary to 50,000 people over the lifetime of the next parliament.
- · Re-open the Dubs unaccompanied child refugee scheme, ensuring Britain meets its responsibilities by taking in 3,000 unaccompanied refugee children.
- · End indefinite immigration detention by introducing a 28-day limit
- · Spending 0.7% of gross national income on aid
- · Controlling arms exports to countries listed as human rights priority
- · suspending arms sales to Saudi Arabia
- · Commit to spending 2% of GDP on defence.
- · Introduce votes at 16 for all elections and referendums across the UK
- · Introduce the Single Transferable Vote for local government elections in England and for electing MPs across the UK.
- · Capping donations to political parties at £10,000 per person each year
- · Mandate the provision of televised leaders’ debates in general elections based on rules produced by Ofcom
- · Introduce legislation to allow for all-BAME and all-LGBT+ parliamentary shortlists.
- · Cancel the boundary review due to report in 2018.
A different Tory, pro capitalist, good Christians, confused, unique and often dangerous views of the world. I am non partisan and often non nonsensical
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Lib dem manifesto pledges
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