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The coalition has href="http://assets.cabinetoffice.gov.uk.s3-external-3.amazonaws.com/midtermreview/HMG_MidTermReview.pdf" >published a Mid-Term Review. Here, at-a-glance, are what it says are the government's plans for the second half of this Parliament. | The coalition has published a href="http://assets.cabinetoffice.gov.uk.s3-external-3.amazonaws.com/midtermreview/HMG_MidTermReview.pdf" > Mid-Term Review. Here, at-a-glance, are its plans for the second half of this Parliament. |
- Further reforms to financial regulation
- More competition among high-street banks
- Develop industrial strategy
- Promote high-tech industry
- Invest in infrastructure
- Boost house-building
- Devolve powers over local economies
- Cut corporation tax and enhance lending to businesses
- Ease burden of taxation on small businesses
- Cut regulation
- Alter employment law, e.g. by introducing shared parental leave
- Promote British exports
- Complete reforms to libel laws
- Boost scrutiny of security services
- Find right "balance" on trials involving matters of national security
- Consider the case for a new British Bill of Rights
- Devolve more powers to local government
- Support local authorities keen to share services
- Ensure consumers get the lowest appropriate energy tariff
- Clarify consumers' rights in law
- Stop regulated rail fares and London Transport fares rising by an average of more than 1% above inflation in 2013 and 2014
- Give consumers access to data collected and held by businesses
- Decide whether to extend the rural fuel discount scheme to remote mainland communities
- Strengthen protection against "rogue bailiffs"
- "Modernise" police pay and conditions
- Formally establish the College of Policing
- Ensure that the police "operate to the highest ethical standards"
- Scrap Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (Asbos) and bring in a "more effective system"
- Create a new law against drug driving
- Improve participation in sport
- Maintain funding for elite athletes
- Encourage volunteering to facilitate sport in communities
- Work with the Scottish Government to hold a successful Commonwealth Games in 2014
- Push for implementation of the Leveson Report
- Invest in new equipment, including aircraft carriers, the joint strike fighter aircraft, and a "renewed nuclear deterrent"
- Increase role and capability of reservists
- Improve service accommodation
- Axe a further 7,000 MOD civilian jobs
- Find £4bn in savings from MoD budget
- Sell unneeded MoD land
- Complete and publish the review of alternatives to Trident
- Distribute £35m in fines for Libor manipulation to service personnel and their families
- Press on with deficit reduction
- Set out detailed spending plans for 2015-16 fiscal year
- Bearing down on fraud and error in Whitehall spending
- Increase number of government procurement contracts going to small- and medium-sized enterprises
- Treble support to low carbon energy up to 2020
- Invest in gas-fired power and carbon capture and storage projects
- Encourage the exploitation of shale gas
- Clarify rules on tax relief available for North Sea oil and gas decommissioning
- Support investment in renewable energy
- Encourage private-sector investment in nuclear power stations
- Introduce smart meters
- Encourage energy efficiency via the "Green Deal"
- Continue to support the Green Investment Bank.
- Promote electric cars
- Improve broadband internet access and improve mobile phone network coverage
- Plant a million trees by 2015
- Curb the trade in illegal logging
- Implement the "Biodiversity Strategy"
- Cut regulations on marine licensing
- Invest in "flood risk management"
- Cut air pollution in towns and cities
- Tackle bovine TB with a policy of "badger control"
- Implement the "Ash Dieback Control Strategy"
- Legislate for same-sex marriages
- Compel companies that have "unequal pay practices" to change them
- Insist on "fiscally responsible" outcome in long-term EU budget negotiations
- Defend the interests of British banks
- Publish the findings of a comprehensive review of the UK's relationship with the EU
- Push for a free trade deal between the EU and the US
- Seek changes to Working Time Directive
- Introduce early education for two-year-olds from poor backgrounds
- Implement "named midwife" policy
- Legislate for flexible parental leave
- Make it easier to adopt
- Cut child-protection bureaucracy
- Reduce delays in family law cases
- Hire 4,200 more health visitors
- Allow Lib Dems to abstain on tax breaks for married couples
- Support Afghan government's efforts to improve security, and continue plans to withdraw British troops
- Prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons
- Push for peace in Syria
- Support EU enlargement to Western Balkans and Turkey, subject to conditions
- Support democracy in Egypt, Libya
- Press on with Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict initiative
- Insist on self-determination for Gibraltar and the Falklands
- Publish more details on meetings between politicians and media figures
- Implement Open Data and Transparency White Paper
- "Open up" government procurement
- Complete transition to new gov.uk website
- Support people who are unable to use digital services
- Cut immigration
- Encourage experts, scientists, artists and performers from abroad to work in the UK
- No cap on number of entrepreneurs, rich people keen to invest in the UK, or senior executives applying for visas
- Tighten process of applying for visa
- No cap on immigration of "genuine students", 1,000 places for MBA graduates who want to start up businesses in UK, allow PhDs to stay longer
- Continue to allow intra-company transfers
- Impose transitional immigration controls on all new members of the EU
- Introduce a new "Life in the UK" handbook and test
- Increase aid to 0.7% of Gross National Income from 2013, and enshrine this commitment in law
- Provide access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation for up to 60 million people
- Stop 250,000 babies dying unnecessarily
- Support 11 million school-children
- Vaccinate more children against preventable diseases
- Save the lives of 50,000 women in pregnancy and childbirth
- Support 13 countries to hold free and fair elections
- Push forward with Universal Credit and the Youth Contract
- Introduce the Personal Independence Payment for disabled people
- Provide start-up loans and business mentors to unemployed people
- "Protect key benefits for older people"
- Reduce reoffending and cut crime
- Legislate for more restorative justice
- Use new technology to track offenders
- Test weekend and night courts to speed up justice
- Explore the potential for further new rape support centres
- Enable court broadcasting
- Increase the health budget in real terms
- Abolish strategic health authorities and primary care trusts from April 2013
- Establish health and well-being boards
- Invest up to £300m over five years in specialised housing for people in need of care
- Introduce a new bowel screening programme
- Regularly check that doctors are fit to carry out their duties
- Protect counter-terrorism capabilities
- Invest in improving cyber security
- Create Border Policing Command to seize illegal goods and curb illegal immigration
- Revise proposals on monitoring web usage
- Expand automatic enrolment in workplace pensions
- Reform public sector pensions
- Carry through changes to state pension age
- Protect age-related universal benefits
- Increase incentives for pension savings
- Introduce statutory register of lobbyists
- Pursue agreement on party funding reform
- Legislate for powers to recall MPS
- Introduce individual electoral registration by 2015
- Campaign for Scotland to remain within the UK
- Devolve more powers to Welsh Assembly
- Consider devolving corporation tax powers to Northern Ireland Assembly
- Hold Commons vote on boundary changes
- Pupil premium to increase to £900 per head by 2014
- Extra funding to help 11-year-olds with maths and English
- Funding for a further 100 free schools and academies
- GCSEs to be replaced by English Baccalaureate
- "Restore the reputation" of A-levels
- Performance-related pay scales for teachers
- Expansion of parental choice in special needs education
- Train 2,000 exceptional graduates as teachers by 2016
- 5,000 community organisers to be recruited in deprived communities
- Expand the ATM charitable giving scheme
- Publish consultation on encouraging workplace payroll donations
- Gift Aid to be simplified through use of online claims
- Consult on protecting services where providers fail
- Make access to care more consistent
- Universal deferred payments scheme to ensure no-one has to sell their homes to fund care
- Enshrine in law entitlement to personal care budget
- Increase the personal income tax allowance to £10,000 in stages
- Introduce a general anti-abuse rule in the 2013 Finance Bill
- Anti-tax avoidance and evasion measures to raise an extra £2bn a year
- More than £5bn extra tax to be raised from Swiss bank account holders liable for UK tax
- South Wales Valley railways to be electrified
- Build western rail link to Heathrow
- Increase capacity on commuter routes
- Bring forward legislation for High Speed Two rail link
- Accelerate road building - upgrading the A1 and the M3
- Support Crossrail and Thameslink projects in London
- Support Commission examining airport capacity in south-east of England
- More freedom for universities to attract highly qualified students
- Universities required to publish performance indicators like student satisfaction
- Implement Wolf reforms to vocational qualifications
- Reduce number of further education qualifications
- Introduce Advanced Learning Loans in August
- £920m in extra investment for UK science research infrastructure
| - Further reforms to financial regulation
- More competition among high-street banks
- Develop industrial strategy
- Promote high-tech industry
- Invest in infrastructure
- Boost house-building
- Devolve powers over local economies
- Cut corporation tax and enhance lending to businesses
- Ease burden of taxation on small businesses
- Cut regulation
- Alter employment law, e.g. by introducing shared parental leave
- Promote British exports
- Complete reforms to libel laws
- Boost scrutiny of security services
- Find right "balance" on trials involving matters of national security
- Consider the case for a new British Bill of Rights
- Devolve more powers to local government
- Support local authorities keen to share services
- Ensure consumers get the lowest appropriate energy tariff
- Clarify consumers' rights in law
- Stop regulated rail fares and London Transport fares rising by an average of more than 1% above inflation in 2013 and 2014
- Give consumers access to data collected and held by businesses
- Decide whether to extend the rural fuel discount scheme to remote mainland communities
- Strengthen protection against "rogue bailiffs"
- "Modernise" police pay and conditions
- Formally establish the College of Policing
- Ensure that the police "operate to the highest ethical standards"
- Scrap Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (Asbos) and bring in a "more effective system"
- Create a new law against drug driving
- Improve participation in sport
- Maintain funding for elite athletes
- Encourage volunteering to facilitate sport in communities
- Work with the Scottish Government to hold a successful Commonwealth Games in 2014
- Push for implementation of the Leveson Report
- Invest in new equipment, including aircraft carriers, the joint strike fighter aircraft, and a "renewed nuclear deterrent"
- Increase role and capability of reservists
- Improve service accommodation
- Axe a further 7,000 MOD civilian jobs
- Find £4bn in savings from MoD budget
- Sell unneeded MoD land
- Complete and publish the review of alternatives to Trident
- Distribute £35m in fines for Libor manipulation to service personnel and their families
- Press on with deficit reduction
- Set out detailed spending plans for 2015-16 fiscal year
- Bearing down on fraud and error in Whitehall spending
- Increase number of government procurement contracts going to small- and medium-sized enterprises
- Treble support to low carbon energy up to 2020
- Invest in gas-fired power and carbon capture and storage projects
- Encourage the exploitation of shale gas
- Clarify rules on tax relief available for North Sea oil and gas decommissioning
- Support investment in renewable energy
- Encourage private-sector investment in nuclear power stations
- Introduce smart meters
- Encourage energy efficiency via the "Green Deal"
- Continue to support the Green Investment Bank.
- Promote electric cars
- Improve broadband internet access and improve mobile phone network coverage
- Plant a million trees by 2015
- Curb the trade in illegal logging
- Implement the "Biodiversity Strategy"
- Cut regulations on marine licensing
- Invest in "flood risk management"
- Cut air pollution in towns and cities
- Tackle bovine TB with a policy of "badger control"
- Implement the "Ash Dieback Control Strategy"
- Legislate for same-sex marriages
- Compel companies that have "unequal pay practices" to change them
- Insist on "fiscally responsible" outcome in long-term EU budget negotiations
- Defend the interests of British banks
- Publish the findings of a comprehensive review of the UK's relationship with the EU
- Push for a free trade deal between the EU and the US
- Seek changes to Working Time Directive
- Introduce early education for two-year-olds from poor backgrounds
- Implement "named midwife" policy
- Legislate for flexible parental leave
- Make it easier to adopt
- Cut child-protection bureaucracy
- Reduce delays in family law cases
- Hire 4,200 more health visitors
- Allow Lib Dems to abstain on tax breaks for married couples
- Support Afghan government's efforts to improve security, and continue plans to withdraw British troops
- Prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons
- Push for peace in Syria
- Support EU enlargement to Western Balkans and Turkey, subject to conditions
- Support democracy in Egypt, Libya
- Press on with Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict initiative
- Insist on self-determination for Gibraltar and the Falklands
- Publish more details on meetings between politicians and media figures
- Implement Open Data and Transparency White Paper
- "Open up" government procurement
- Complete transition to new gov.uk website
- Support people who are unable to use digital services
- Cut immigration
- Encourage experts, scientists, artists and performers from abroad to work in the UK
- No cap on number of entrepreneurs, rich people keen to invest in the UK, or senior executives applying for visas
- Tighten process of applying for visa
- No cap on immigration of "genuine students", 1,000 places for MBA graduates who want to start up businesses in UK, allow PhDs to stay longer
- Continue to allow intra-company transfers
- Impose transitional immigration controls on all new members of the EU
- Introduce a new "Life in the UK" handbook and test
- Increase aid to 0.7% of Gross National Income from 2013, and enshrine this commitment in law
- Provide access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation for up to 60 million people
- Stop 250,000 babies dying unnecessarily
- Support 11 million school-children
- Vaccinate more children against preventable diseases
- Save the lives of 50,000 women in pregnancy and childbirth
- Support 13 countries to hold free and fair elections
- Push forward with Universal Credit and the Youth Contract
- Introduce the Personal Independence Payment for disabled people
- Provide start-up loans and business mentors to unemployed people
- "Protect key benefits for older people"
- Reduce reoffending and cut crime
- Legislate for more restorative justice
- Use new technology to track offenders
- Test weekend and night courts to speed up justice
- Explore the potential for further new rape support centres
- Enable court broadcasting
- Increase the health budget in real terms
- Abolish strategic health authorities and primary care trusts from April 2013
- Establish health and well-being boards
- Invest up to £300m over five years in specialised housing for people in need of care
- Introduce a new bowel screening programme
- Regularly check that doctors are fit to carry out their duties
- Protect counter-terrorism capabilities
- Invest in improving cyber security
- Create Border Policing Command to seize illegal goods and curb illegal immigration
- Revise proposals on monitoring web usage
- Expand automatic enrolment in workplace pensions
- Reform public sector pensions
- Carry through changes to state pension age
- Protect age-related universal benefits
- Increase incentives for pension savings
- Introduce statutory register of lobbyists
- Pursue agreement on party funding reform
- Legislate for powers to recall MPS
- Introduce individual electoral registration by 2015
- Campaign for Scotland to remain within the UK
- Devolve more powers to Welsh Assembly
- Consider devolving corporation tax powers to Northern Ireland Assembly
- Hold Commons vote on boundary changes
- Pupil premium to increase to £900 per head by 2014
- Extra funding to help 11-year-olds with maths and English
- Funding for a further 100 free schools and academies
- GCSEs to be replaced by English Baccalaureate
- "Restore the reputation" of A-levels
- Performance-related pay scales for teachers
- Expansion of parental choice in special needs education
- Train 2,000 exceptional graduates as teachers by 2016
- 5,000 community organisers to be recruited in deprived communities
- Expand the ATM charitable giving scheme
- Publish consultation on encouraging workplace payroll donations
- Gift Aid to be simplified through use of online claims
- Consult on protecting services where providers fail
- Make access to care more consistent
- Universal deferred payments scheme to ensure no-one has to sell their homes to fund care
- Enshrine in law entitlement to personal care budget
- Increase the personal income tax allowance to £10,000 in stages
- Introduce a general anti-abuse rule in the 2013 Finance Bill
- Anti-tax avoidance and evasion measures to raise an extra £2bn a year
- More than £5bn extra tax to be raised from Swiss bank account holders liable for UK tax
- South Wales Valley railways to be electrified
- Build western rail link to Heathrow
- Increase capacity on commuter routes
- Bring forward legislation for High Speed Two rail link
- Accelerate road building - upgrading the A1 and the M3
- Support Crossrail and Thameslink projects in London
- Support Commission examining airport capacity in south-east of England
- More freedom for universities to attract highly qualified students
- Universities required to publish performance indicators like student satisfaction
- Implement Wolf reforms to vocational qualifications
- Reduce number of further education qualifications
- Introduce Advanced Learning Loans in August
- £920m in extra investment for UK science research infrastructure
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