Pensions

  • Restore the link between state pensions and earnings by 2012
  • Increase pension age to 66 in 2024, to 67 on 2034 and 68 in 2044
  • Require employers to automatically enrol employees into either an in-house pension scheme or the state-run Personal Accounts scheme
  • Review the default retirement age with a view to abolishing it

Transport

  • Secured funding deal for London Crossrail project
  • Propose a 30bn Y-shaped high speed rail line from London to Manchester and Leeds via Birmingham
  • Support third runway for Heathrow on condition that air quality, noise and carbon emissions reductions are on track
  • 10bn rail expansion programme planned for 2009-14, including 5.5bn for Thameslink, 600m to improve stations at birmingham New Street and Reading and 150m for 150 other stationss
  • Rule out road pricing before 2015
  • Stagger 2010 increase in fuel duty, with 1p increase in April, 1p in October, and 1p in January 2011

Health

  • Protect frontline NHS from spending cuts
  • Ensure all hospitals become foundation trusts
  • Ensure all people who suspect they have cancer get test results within one week
  • Guarantee cancer patients will see a specialist within two weeks of diagnosis and get test results within one week
  • Offer everyone between 40 and 74 free, five yearly NHS health check
  • Guarantee NHS patients the right to wait no longer than 18 weeks from the moment of GP referral to hospital treatment
  • Establish a "National Care Service" for elderly and vulnerable people, with funding arrangements decided by a Commission
  • Provide free personal care indefinitely for those in highest need
  • Meet elderly people's care costs after they have spent two years in residential care

Environment

  • 34% cut in greenhouse gases emissions by 2020 and 80% cut by 2050
  • Committed UK to participating in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)
  • Commit 2bn for a "Green Bank" to encourage investment in renewable energy
  • Establish a levy to raise 9.5m for investment in carbon capture technology
  • Changed planning system to encourage a new generation of nuclear power stations
  • Continue to increase the Renewables Obligation, a tax to force electricity suppliers to embrace renewable energy
  • Make energy suppliers roll out "smart meters" for all homes by 2020
  • Introduce 'pay as you save' home insulation schemes
  • Ensure all new homes are energy efficient from 2016
  • ban bio-degradable and recyclable material from landfills