Pensions

  • Restore the link between the state pension and earnings
  • Examine the feasability of increasing the pension age to 66 (by 2016 for men and by 2020 for women)
  • End compulsory annuities at 75
  • Simplify the rules to encourage companies to offer pension schemes
  • Place a cap on the biggest government pensions
  • Keep the Winter Fuel Payment

Transport

  • Support London Crossrail project but do not guarantee to match Labour's funding plan
  • Develop a high speed rail network connecting cities across England, Scotland and Wales, with construction of the first stage to begin in 2015
  • Block the third runway at Heathrow
  • Break up BAA monopoly over airports in the South East
  • Expand the remit of the Office of Rail Regulation to focus on consumers
  • Give passengers and train operators a stronger voice on Network Rail's board
  • Oppose road pricing
  • Introduce "Fair Fuel Stabiliser" to reduce fuel duty as oil prices rise and increase it as oil prices fall
  • Stop funding new fixed speed cameras and switch to "better" road safety measures.

Health

  • Increase health spending in real terms over a parliament
  • Replace 'process' targets, such as maximum time before seeing a cancer specialist, with 'outcome' targets, such as number of people dying from cancer
  • More management freedom for NHS providers
  • Put performance data online
  • Allow patients to choose any healthcare provider that meets NHS standards
  • Implement a 'payment for results' system throughout NHS
  • Link GPs' pay to results
  • Cut the cost of NHS administration by a third
  • Create an independent NHS board
  • End mixed-sex wards
  • Increase the number of single rooms in hospitals
  • Allow retirees to protect their homes from being sold to fund residential care costs by paying a one-off premium of 8,000 at retirement.

Environment

  • Want 34% reduction in greenhouse gases emissions by 2020 and 80% cut by 2050 * Offer every household the right to have up to 6,500 worth of home insulation, with the costs being met from the savings that arise
  • Create a Green Investment Bank to coordinate investment in green technology
  • Encourage micro-generation of electricity with feed-in tariffs
  • Use smart grid and smart meter technology to match supply and demand and enable greater take-up of renewable energy
  • Provide government backing for a network of large scale Marine Energy Parks
  • Speed up the planning process for new nuclear power plants
  • Only permit coal-fired power stations to be built with clean carbon technology
  • Cut central governments carbon emissions by 10% within 12 months
  • Make provision for a national recharging network for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles
  • Ensure all new homes are energy efficient from 2016.