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