Conservative manifesto - 2019

Budget:

·        Not borrow to fund day-to-day spending

·        public sector net investment will not average more than 3 per cent of GDP

·        National debt will be lower at the end of the Parliament

·        No raise in rates of income tax

·        No raise in rates of National insurance

·        No raise in rates of VAT

·        raise the National Insurance threshold to £9,500 next year

·        keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass

·        We will cut taxes for small retail businesses and for local music venues, pubs and cinemas

·        250 million for a cultural capital fund

·        Invest £100 billion in additional infrastructure spending – on roads, rail and other responsible, productive investment

·        flood defenses will receive £4 billion in new funding

·        stamp duty surcharge on non-UK resident buyers

·        new £3 billion National Skills Fund

·        increase the Employment Allowance for small businesses

·        Expand start up loans via the British business bank

·        We will increase the tax credit rate to 13 per cent and review the definition of R&D

·        Bring in a  Digital Services Tax

·        £1 billion Ayrton Fund to develop affordable and accessible clean energy

·        £640 million new Nature for Climate fund

·        Spend 0.7 GNI on international development

Health & Social care:

·        Recruit 50,000 more nurses

·        £34 billion per year by the end of the Parliament in additional funding for the NHS

·        building 40 new hospitals across the country

·        boost early cancer diagnosis across 78 hospital trusts

·        20 hospital upgrades announced in the summer

·        Students Nurses receiving a £5,000-£8,000 annual maintenance grant every year during their course

·        6,000 more doctors in general practice

·        6,000 more primary care professionals

·        7,500 extra nurse associates

·        20,000 primary care professionals

·        £25 million cash additional fund to hospices

·        End hospital parking

·        increase the NHS surcharge paid by those from overseas

·        nobody needing care should be forced to sell their home to pay for it

·        1 billion for social care

·        extend the entitlement to leave for unpaid careers

·        doubling research funding into dementia

·        provide £74 million over three years for additional capacity in community care settings for those with learning disabilities and autism

·        Employment & Welfare:

·        Increased national wage to 10.50

·        create a single enforcement body and crack down on any employer abusing employment law

·        abolished employers’ National Insurance Contributions for under-21s

·        allow parents to take extended leave for neonatal care

·        We will establish a new £1 billion fund to help create more high quality, affordable childcare

·        keep our existing energy cap

·        continue the roll-out of Universal Credit

·        end the benefit freeze

·        maintaining our commitment to free school meals

·        reduce the number of reassessments a disabled person must go through

·        no longer allow people to claim child benefit for children living overseas

·        end the blight of rough sleeping by the end of the next Parliament

·        our target of 300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020

·        Crime:

·        20,000 more police

·        Equip police with Tasers and body cameras

·        put the Police Covenant into law

·        easier for officers to stop and search those convicted of knife crime

·        end automatic halfway release from prison for serious crimes

·        For child murderers, there will be life imprisonment without parole

·        cut the number of foreign nationals in our prisons

·        trialing Secure School

·        job coach in each prison

·        doubling the maximum sentence for assaulting workers in emergency services

·        add 10,000 more prison places

·        make intentional trespass a criminal offence

·        Double the maximum prison term to 14 years for tax evasion

·        Create a single, beefed-up AntiTax Evasion unit in HMRC

·        increase penalties for fly-tipping

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·        Brexit & Immigration:

·        Points-based immigration system

·        Leave the European union by January 2020

·        End the role of the European Court of Justice

·        NHS Visa for qualifies foreign doctors

·        ending freedom of movement

·        Actively recruiting leaders in their field to come to the UK.

·        We will treat EU and non-EU citizens equally

·        student visa allow those students to stay on to apply for work here after they graduate

·        start-up visa, for entrepreneurs

·        boost English language teaching

·        People coming into the country from the EU will only be able to access unemployment, housing, and child benefit after five years

·        £500 million of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund

·        Increase the annual quota for the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme we are piloting from 2,500 to 10,000.

Education:

·        Investing £14 billion over three years to increase funding for every primary and every secondary school pupil in the country.

·        an extra £14 billion in funding for schools

·        £5,000 a year for each secondary school pupil

·        £4,000 for each primary school pupil

·        £780 million in new funding to support children with Special Educational Needs

·        raising teachers’ starting salaries to £30,000

·        investing £500 million in youth services for young people

·        create a prisoner education service focused on work-based training and skills

·        Youth Futures Foundation will invest at least £90 million to improve employment outcomes for young people

·        have 20 Institutes of Technology

Government reform & agriculture:

·        We will ban public bodies from imposing their own direct or indirect boycotts

·        Our ambition is for full devolution across England

·        Festival of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 2022

·        public money for public goods agricultural policy

·        creating a Great Northumberland Forest

·        guarantee the current annual budget to farmers

·        an additional 75,000 acres of trees a year

·        create new National Parks

·        UK Shared Prosperity Fund to replace EU structural funds

·        get rid of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act

·        equal Parliamentary boundaries

·        identification to vote at polling stations

·        Bring the ivory ban into force

·        We will ban keeping primates as pets

Housing and community:

·        ensure that new GP and school places are delivered ahead of people moving into new housing development

·        We will establish a £150 million Community Ownership Fund to encourage local takeovers of civic organizations or community assets that are under threat

·        Business rates relief for local newspapers

·        We intend to bring full fiber and gigabit capable broadband to every home and business across the UK by 2025

·        . Local people will continue to have the final say on council tax

·        We will encourage a new market in long-term fixed rate mortgages which slash the cost of deposits

·        enabling councils to use developers’ contributions via the planning process to discount homes in perpetuity

·        Maintain right to buy and extend to housing association

·        extended the Help to Buy scheme from 2021 to 2023

·        implementing our ban on the sale of new leasehold homes

·        Ending no fault evictions

·        requiring one ‘lifetime’ deposit which moves with the tenant

·        Introduce a new levy to increase the proportion of recyclable plastics in packaging.

Transport and environment:

·        We will build Northern Powerhouse Rail between Leeds and Manchester

·        We will extend contactless pay-as you go ticketing to almost 200 more stations in the South East

·        We will make a £28.8 billion investment in strategic and local roads

·        We will invest £1 billion in completing a fast-charging network

·        biggest ever pothole-filling program

·        create a new £350 million Cycling Infrastructure Fund

·        Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050

·        establish a new £500 million Blue Planet Fund to help protect our oceans from plastic pollution

·        Offshore wind industry will reach 40Gw by 2030

·        l invest £800 million to build the first fully deployed carbon capture storage cluster

·        invest £500 million to help energy-intensive industries move to low-carbon techniques

·        investing £9.2 billion in the energy efficiency buildings

Defense and international relations

·        introduce new legislation to tackle the vexatious legal claims that undermine our Armed Forces

·        We will reduce National Insurance contributions for employers if they employ ex-Service personnel

·        spending 2 per cent of GDP on defense

·        increase defense budget by at least 0.5 per cent above inflation every year

·        Maintain trident

·        building the new Type 31 frigates in British shipyards

·        We aim to have 80 per cent of UK trade covered by free trade agreements within the next three years

·        create up to ten Freeport’s around the UK,