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Labour’s manifesto commitments.
• A low debt, high employment economy
• Minimum wage to rise to over £5
• ID cards rolled out
• Increase the proportion of national income dedicated to education
• Maximum waits of 18 weeks in the NHS
• Neighbourhood policing team for every community
• No increase in the basic or top rates of income tax in the next parliament
• International agreement on universal access to AIDS treatment by 2010
• Work for international action on climate change
• Random drug tests for offenders on probation
• Continue to meet our fiscal rules
• Maintain economic stability, with mortgage rates as low as possible
• Targeted tax cuts for families
• Increase investment in science
• Full employment in every region and nation
• Free access to basic skills
• A total of two million extra homeowners by 2010
• Help for first time buyers
• New rights to own for social tenants
• An extra 10,000 social homes a year
• Spend more on transport
• Expanding our key motorways
• Free off-peak local bus travel for older and disabled people
• Increase paid maternity leave
• Guarantee eight days paid bank holiday for all workers
• Homes for key workers
• Increase free nursery provision for three- and four-year olds
• Out-of-school childcare and activities from 8am to 6pm
• More help with childcare costs
• 3,500 Sure Start Children’s Centres
• Reassert our commitment to halve child poverty by 2010
• Upgrade primary schools nationwide
• Enriched curriculum for primary school children
• Specialist schools will become extended schools
• Childcare for children aged three to 14
• Refurbish or rebuild every secondary school
• Dedicated national schools budget with guaranteed per pupil increases
• Training, sixth form or an apprenticeship for every young person
• More young people into higher education
• More nurse practitioners
• 100 major new hospitals by 2010
• New walk in centres for commuters
• More cancer treatments available at home
• Fewer deaths from heart disease and strokes
• Deaths from cancer down by 20 per cent
• Serious Organised Crime Agency
• Tough new laws on guns and knives
• Increased electronic tagging
• Trial compulsory lie detector tests for convicted sex offenders
• Compulsory drug testing at arrest for all property and drug offenders
• Cut overall crime by 15 per cent by 2008
• Points system for migrants
• Reform to help sick and disabled people into work
• Employers liable to £2,000 penalty for each illegal immigrant
• Increase Pension Credit with earnings over next three years
• Eliminate fuel poverty starting with the most vulnerable
• Build consensus for pension reform
• Tackle age discrimination
• Good schools able to expand
• Allow successful primary schools to become foundation schools
• Secondary schools to become independent specialist schools
• 200 Academies to raise standards
• School and pupil profiles to give parents information
• Every pupil with extra support in their weakest subjects
• Ofsted with more power to respond to parental complaints
• Patients to choose hospitals
• Good family doctors to develop their services
• More help for those with long-term conditions
• 3,000 new community matrons
• Improved food labelling
• Ban smoking in enclosed public spaces and workplaces
• Neighbourhood policing team for every community
• 24,000 community support officers
• Anonymous evidence from victims of anti-social behaviour
• More power for Parish Council wardens
• Community ownership of local assets
• More recycling
• Promote renewable energy
• Complete the reform of the House of Lords
• A Single Equalities Commission and a Single Equality Act
• Safe access to the internet
• Support Middle East peace process
• 20 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions by 2010
• Campaign for a yes vote in the referendum on the constitutional treaty
• Clear timetable to achieve UN aid target
• Pressing for doubling of aid through International Finance Facility
• Developing countries to sequence their trade reforms
• Public voice in lottery
• Crack down on environmental crime
• Collection of at least two types of recyclable materials from all households
• Environmental school trips for all children
• A Marine Act
• More dedicated provision for disruptive and excluded pupils
• Specialised vocational diplomas
• Expand sixth-form, college and apprenticeship places
• No extension of VAT to food, children’s clothes, books,
newspapers and public transport fares
• Safer public transport
• Tackling aviation’s impact on the environment
• More jobs, less crime and a better life for our poorest neighbourhoods
• Consultation on Lottery good causes
• Bring empty homes back into use
• Choice over where and how to have a baby
• Work for international arms trade treaty
• Further investment and modernisation for our forces
• Lead reform of the UN
• Decent, warm homes for all social tenants
• Polluters to improve the environment they damaged
• Support democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Lead reform in the European Union
• Long term aim of a billion out of poverty
• Time off for free training up to level two
• New partnership to fund workplace training at level three
• Sector Skills Councils and a leading edge Skills Academy in every sector
• More flexibility in the structure of governing bodies
• Sustain a long term future for fishing communities
• Public services to consider local sourcing of fresh produce
• Rewarding farmers for environmental protection
• Promote biomass, biofuels and non-food crops
• Animal Welfare Bill
• Widen routes into teaching
• Opportunities for pupils in their strongest areas
• Support sixth-form colleges and invest in FE colleges
• Help universities to raise more charitable and private funding
• Review the impact of liberalisation on the Royal Mail
• End practice of making aid conditional on economic policies
• Time for pupils to get the basics right
• Small schools and boarding schools for those who would benefit
• Further reform of the Common Agricultural Policy
• Every pupil fulfilling their potential
• More of the nation’s resources devoted to education
• New school provision where standards are too low or innovation is needed
• Aim to raise the employment rate to 80 per cent
• Further savings on unemployment invested in education
• Community run branch lines
• Support for Crossrail
• Planning key transport links of the future
• Ofsted with more power to close failing schools or
replace failing management
• Rights for successful schools to establish sixth-form provision
• For every pensioner household paying council tax, £200 towards council tax
• Families with children better off
• Heads to control budgets for dealing with disruptive pupils
• More dedicated provision for disruptive and excluded pupils
• More power over budgets for family doctors
• High-street chiropody, physiotherapy and check-ups
• Develop modern NHS community hospitals
• Consult on powers for city mayors
• Consider more directly elected mayors
• Consult on ‘whole council’ elections
• NHS spending tripled by 2008
• Tackle health inequalities
• National framework for youth volunteering
• More freedom for good councils
• Simplifying council funding streams
• Three-year funding for councils
• Council Tax Benefit easier to claim
• Reform council tax
• A stronger Welsh Assembly
• Comprehensive out of hours GP services
• More money for school dinners
• School meals free from the unhealthiest foods
• End to chain migration
• Bonds to guarantee that migrants return home
• School kitchens rebuilt or renewed
• Better training for dinner ladies
• Better quality school meals
• Local people to have a greater say in shaping community punishment
• Police to keep more seized criminal assets
• Compensation culture tackled
• Every pupil offered enterprise education
• Give fathers more time with their children
• New offence of corporate manslaughter
• English language tests for those who wish to stay permanently in the UK
• Faster processing of cheques and other payments
• Action on dormant bank accounts
• Right for Heads to search pupils for knives or guns
• At-risk pubs and clubs will be required to search for knives
• Tougher sentences for assaulting public sector workers
• Simpler faster and more responsive planning system
• More help and advice for parents
• Targeted action on young people most at risk of offending
• Expand drug-treatment services for young people
• Restrict the sale of replica guns
• Tougher penalties for killing whilst driving
• Exacting targets for reducing the costs of regulation
• Streamline business inspections
• Car-pool lanes for cars
• Better traffic management
• More council control over local transport
• Strengthen and streamline consumer advocacy
• Personalised budgets for disabled people
• Full employment in every region and nation
• Improving efficiency and increasing investment in frontline services
• Supporting light rail and Manchester Metrolink
• Improving London Underground
• Halving child road injuries and deaths
• Every offender supervised after release
• Voluntary organisations and private sector to deliver offender services
• No appeal rights for non-family immigration cases
• Visa applicants to be finger printed
• A sports day at every school
• Competitive sport in schools
• Sport Direct a single point of access for sport in your area
• ID cards to all long stay visitors
• Electronic borders system
• Biometric ‘ePassports’
• Choice for social tenants to choose where they live
• Keep record numbers of police officers
• Court cases to go ahead for stay away defendants
• Overhaul fraud trials
• National victim support network
• More police on the frontline
• More electronic tagging for persistent young offenders
• More help for parents of young offenders
• High quality sport facilities for all
• £155m for safe, modern playgrounds
• A National Sports Foundation
• Supporting community sport
• Criminals prevented from profiting their crimes
• Action to ensure fines are paid
• Stronger support for victims and witnesses
• More specialist courts on domestic violence, murder and rape
• Legal aid reformed
• Independent regulation of lawyers
• Value for money from legal services
• Fighting digital piracy
• UK the best place to make films
• Support for film production
• More support for film festivals
• Return of the school nurse
• Community ownership of local assets
• Parish councils for London
• Computers at home for all pupils
• Digital Challenge
• Modernised copyright
• Fast and fair system of controlled migration
• Removing more failed asylum seekers
• Convict those planning terrorist activity
• Faster test results for cervical smears
• NHS professionals to be fully accountable
• All drug trials made public
• Examine current electoral system’s operation
• Explore new forms of public engagement
• Full civil rights for disabled people
• Promote equality of opportunity
• Outlaw incitement to religious hatred
• Bear down on frivolous HRA claims
• Devolving powers to regional bodies
• Re-establish devolution in Northern Ireland
• Remove remaining hereditary peers
• More doctors, more nurses and NHS dentists
• More information for patients
• Personalised budgets in social care
• More expert patient programmes through charities
• Extra help for those with long term mental health problems
• Specialised diagnostic and testing services from your GP
• Mutuals, cooperatives and Community Interest Companies
included in procurement policies
• Reintroduce Charities Bill
• More activities for young people
• A say for the young over their services
• Review the powers of the London Mayor and GLA
• Free vote on Lords composition
• £35,000 to start a creative business
• Creative Apprenticeships
• £12m to promote leadership for arts
• BBC’s future guaranteed
• Channel 4 a publicly owned broadcaster
• All TV digital by 2012
• Boosting donations to our art collections
• A public voice in protecting buildings
• Arts for all young people
• £1.5 billion for sports facilities
• A Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme
• Olympic Scholarships
• Modernised libraries
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