Pensions

  • Link annual increases in the state pension and either earnings or prices, whichever is higher in a given year
  • Restrict tax relief on pension contributions to the basic rate
  • In the long term, introduce a Citizens Pension that will be paid to all UK citizens on residence, not contribution history
  • Use savings from public sector pension reform to boost the state pension
  • Scrap the default retirement ages
  • Allow older people to draw part of their private or occupational pension whilst working part time

Transport

  • Set up a future Transport Fund to improve the public transport system, paid for by charging for road freight on motorways
  • Block third runway at Heathrow
  • Support Crossrail, but would prefer more private sector funding
  • Commited in the long term to a revenue-neutral road-user pricing scheme on motorways and trunk roads
  • Invest in UK-wide high speed rail network
  • Give local authorities more control over bus services
  • No new major road building schemes "unless the benefits are clear"
  • Require new office blocks and other places of employment to have proper facilities for cycling

Health

  • Replace Strategic Health Authorities with democratically elected local health boards with power to prevent hospital closures
  • Reduce number of health targets
  • Introduce "patient contracts" specifying what patients can expect from NHS
  • Make it easier to switch GP
  • Allow patients to register at more than one practice
  • Reform NHS dental contracts to encourage dentists back into the NHS
  • Extend access to end-of-life services and hospices
  • More cost-effective purchasing of drugs including greater use of eneric drugs
  • Paymernts for over-65s who require personal care such as help with dressing based on need, not ability to pay

Environment

  • 40% reduction in greenhouse gases emissions by 2020 rising to 100% by 2050
  • Raise fuel duty in line with economic growth
  • Effective insulation for all homes with decade
  • Ensure all new homes energy efficient from 2010
  • Offer "Green Loans" to invest in home energy efficiency
  • Replace air passenger duty with a per-plane tax
  • Tax domestic flights to encourage rail use
  • 'Smart metering' for gas and electricity in five years
  • 'Smart grid' to boost use of renewables
  • Extend the new carbon trading scheme
  • Oppose new nuclear power plants
  • Ensure all new coal-fired power generation plants use carbon capture technology