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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. | The coalition has published a href="http://assets.cabinetoffice.gov.uk.s3-external-3.amazonaws.com/midtermreview/HMG_MidTermReview.pdf" >Mid-Term Review, assessing the progress it has made so far on the pledges in its original href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8677088.stm" title="BBC guide to the original agreement" >coalition agreement and setting out its plans for the second half of this Parliament. Here, at-a-glance, are its plans for the future. |
- 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, which enables people to donate to charity while withdrawing cash
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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