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.