Lib dem manifesto pledges

• ·         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gender stereotyping and early sexualisation, working with schools to promote positive body image and break down outdated perceptions of gender appropriateness of particular academic subjects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.