Original coalition agreement pledges: - Commission to look at "structural" banking reform
- New banking levy
- Clampdown on "unacceptable" bonuses
- More lending to businesses
What coalition says it's achieved: - Stability of banks has improved
- "Failed" regulatory system to be replaced in April
- Levy ensures banks make "fair" contribution
- "Unparalleled transparency" in bankers' pay
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Banks have been given tax cut and the levy is "weak"
- Bankers' bonuses remain "large" and transparency insufficient
- Banks not lending enough to viable small businesses
- Regulatory reform plans inadequate
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Further reforms to financial regulation, including a separation of retail and investment banking
- More competition among high-street banks
Original coalition agreement pledges: - No new regulation without "other regulation being cut by a greater amount"
- Simplify taxes for small businesses
- Create "most competitive corporate tax regime in the G20"
- Make it easier to start new businesses
What coalition says it's achieved: - Helped businesses create more than one million new jobs
- Cut corporation tax from 28% to 24% and legislate for 21% by 2014
- Cut top rate of income tax even as "the wealthiest pay more overall"
- Enabled business lending to increase
- Invested in high-tech industry, infrastructure, housing, and regional growth
- Curbed bureaucracy
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - More than 40,000 businesses have gone bust
- Take-up of National Insurance holiday scheme very low
- Workers' rights under threat
- Government has "no plan for jobs and growth"
- Regional growth scheme is "in chaos"
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Develop industrial strategy
- More investment in high-tech industry, infrastructure, and house-building
- Devolve powers over local economies
- Boost lending to businesses
- Ease burden of taxation on small businesses
- Cut regulation further
- Alter employment law, e.g. by introducing shared parental leave
- Promote British exports
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Great Repeal Bill, to include abolition of ID cards
- Safeguards for use of personal details on the DNA database
- Defend trial by jury
- Review libel laws
- End unjustified storage of data on web-usage
- Commission to assess case for British Bill of Rights
What coalition says it's achieved: - ID cards scrapped
- Abuse of anti-terror laws prevented
- System of monitoring suspected terrorists altered
- DNA retention curbed
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Plans for increased surveillance of web usage causing "huge alarm"
- Ministers forced to alter "secret courts" plans after Lords defeats
- DNA changes make it harder for police to catch criminals
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Complete process of reforming libel laws
- Boost scrutiny of security services
- Find right "balance" on trials involving matters of national security
- Consider the commission's report on the case for a new Bill of Rights
Original coalition agreement pledges: - "Radical" shift in power to local government and community groups
- Councils and residents to increase role in local planning decisions
- Bring empty homes into use, and promote shared housing ownership schemes
- Freeze council tax
- Improve energy efficiency of new housing
What coalition says it's achieved: - "Sweeping reforms" have increased local authorities' freedoms
- Council tax frozen
- Neighbourhoods have more power over planning
- Directly elected mayors introduced in Bristol, Leicester and Liverpool
- Retention of weekly refuse collections for 6 million households
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - House-building has fallen
- Rents and homelessness are rising
- Localism policies actually gave "extraordinary" new powers to central government
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Devolve more powers to local government
- Support local authorities keen to share services
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Regulators to have power to ban "excessive" charges for credit and store cards
- Better information for credit-card users
- End unfair bank charges
- Curb "abuses of power" by supermarkets
- Better information on different tariffs to be included in energy bills
- Establish a free national financial advice service
What coalition says it's achieved: - Energy companies will notify customers of cheaper tariffs
- The Money Advice Service has been established
- Car insurance premiums have been cut
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Government failing to stand up for consumers
- Train companies hiking fares after Labour's "strict cap" was abolished
- All top energy companies raising prices by between 10% and 20%
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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"
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Cut bureaucracy in policing
- Review police officers' terms of employment
- Directly elected oversight of police
- Publication of more crime data
- Public to hold police to account at regular meetings
- Bolster rights of homeowners to tackle burglars
- Ban on selling alcohol "below cost price"
What coalition says it's achieved: - Directly elected police and crime commissioners (PCCs)
- More than 500 million hits on crime data website
- Police bureaucracy cut
- Consultation on 45p-per-unit minimum price for alcohol
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Cuts will cost more than 15,000 police officer jobs
- Police powers to tackle anti-social behaviour being weakened
- Turnout for PCC elections was historically low
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - "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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - More scrutiny of BBC spending
- Promote local media
- Maintain free entry to national museums and galleries
- Help to ensure London 2012 Games and Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games are a success
- Improve administration of National Lottery
- Introduce "Olympics-style schools sport event"
- Cut bureaucracy for live music venues
- Increase broadband internet access
What coalition says it's achieved: - London 2012 Games were "successful and memorable"
- More than 15,000 schools signed up to School Games competition
- Cut costs for small venues keen to stage live music
- National museums and galleries still free to enter
- The National Audit Office now has access to BBC accounts
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - David Cameron was "shamed" into setting up Leveson Inquiry on media ethics, and then "rubbished its central recommendation"
- Jeremy Hunt did not lose his job as culture secretary despite "clear evidence" that had broken the ministerial code
- Ministers forced to scrap changes to tax on charitable giving
- Involvement in school sport now in decline
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Maintain Trident nuclear weapons system
- Cut MoD running costs by at least 25%
- "Rebuild" military covenant governing relationship between armed forces and society
- Review Armed Forces pay and quality of accommodation
- Improve treatment of injured personnel
- Support defence exports that are not used for "internal repression"
What coalition says it's achieved: - Trident maintained and defence spending large compared with most other countries
- MoD costs cut and 20,000 civilian jobs shed
- Military covenant enshrined in law
- Government support for defence exports continues, although rules tightened due to "lessons learned from the Arab Spring"
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Military personnel sacked months before pensions due
- Investment in accommodation being cut
- 30,000 Armed Forces job cuts will leave UK with "skills shortages"
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Reduce the deficit mainly by cutting spending rather than raising taxes
- Full Spending Review by Autumn 2010
- Reduce Child Trust Funds and cut tax credits for high earners
- Abolish a number of quangos
What coalition says it's achieved: - Deficit cut by a quarter
- Low earners protected
- Government spending now more efficient
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Government policies caused double-dip recession
- Borrowing is £212bn higher than planned
- Welfare bill is "soaring"
- Working families suffering due to below-inflation increases to in-work benefits
- The "very richest" receiving £3bn tax cut
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Press on with deficit reduction
- Set out detailed spending plans for 2015-16 fiscal year
- Bear down further on fraud and error in Whitehall spending
- Increase number of government procurement contracts going to small- and medium-sized enterprises
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Push for increase in EU emissions reduction target to 30% by 2020
- Generate more energy from renewable sources
- Invest in carbon capture and storage
- Found green investment bank
- Encourage marine energy, and energy from waste through anaerobic digestion
- Block third runway at Heathrow, and expansion of Gatwick and Stansted
- Improve home energy efficiency
What coalition says it's achieved: - £3bn allocated to new green investment bank
- Energy derived from renewables increasing
- £1bn investment in carbon capture and storage
- Helped "get EU back on track" to cutting energy consumption by 20% by 2020
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Solar power industry hit by changes to feed-in tariffs
- Investment in renewables has halved
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Criminalise the import or possession of illegally logged timber
- Launch tree-planting campaign
- Review governance of National Parks
- Work towards EU air quality standards
- Improve flood defences
- Encourage recycling
- A "carefully managed and science-led policy of badger control" to curb bovine TB
- Give MPs a free vote on repeal of the Hunting Act
What coalition says it's achieved: - Better deal for farmers, particularly milk producers
- Clearer food labelling
- Developed strategy on generating energy from waste via anaerobic digestion
- Lower fuel bills for remote communities
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Ministers forced into U-turn on selling publicly owned forests
- Support for badger cull goes against official advice
- Investment in flood defences cut by 27%
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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 the postponed badger cull
- Implement the "Ash Dieback Control Strategy"
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Tackle discrimination at work, including in pay packages
- Promote gender equality on company boards
- Offer Whitehall internships to ethnic minority candidates
What coalition says it's achieved: - Automatic retirement at 65 abolished
- Proportion of female board members up by about a half
- Past convictions for consensual gay relationships quashed
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Women hit hardest by spending cuts
- Insufficient action to curb childcare costs
- Ministers have abandoned a Labour bid to tackle the gender pay gap
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Legislate for same-sex marriages
- Compel companies that have "unequal pay practices" to change them
Original coalition agreement pledges: - UK to play a "strong and positive role" in the EU
- No further transfer of powers to Brussels without referendum
- Ensure that UK does not join euro
- Support EU enlargement
What coalition says it's achieved: - "Referendum lock" in place
- Group of 12 pro-market EU member states established
- Agreed to EU-Singapore free-trade deal
- Backed accession of Croatia to EU
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Veto at December 2011 summit showed "failure" of UK leadership
- David Cameron "sleepwalking" towards EU exit
- Decision to opt out of European Arrest Warrant undermines fight against international crime
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - End child poverty by 2020
- Free nursery care for pre-school children
- Refocus Sure Start centres on the neediest families
- "New approach" to helping families with multiple problems
- Crack down on "irresponsible" advertising to children
- Promote system of flexible parental leave
What coalition says it's achieved: - Payment-by-results scheme in place to help 120,000 most troubled families
- Children protected from irresponsible advertising
- Improvements in how child poverty is calculated
- Support for people aiming to set up childcare businesses
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Single-parent families worse off
- Families contributing more than banks to deficit reduction
- Sure Start funding cut, with 381 centres closing
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Work towards security in Afghanistan and peace in the Middle East
- Improve relations with India and maintain ties with the US
- Strengthen the Commonwealth and reform the UN Security Council
What coalition says it's achieved: - A transition to democracy in Libya
- Support for more open societies in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen
- Helped secure sanctions against Iran in response to nuclear programme
- Provided aid to victims of the conflict in Syria
- Progress in international efforts to tackle piracy off the coast of Somalia
- Promoted democratic reforms in Burma
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Government not committed to international institutions
- UK national interest neglected
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - More transparency in public sector pay
- Introduce a statutory register of lobbyists
- Reforms to party funding
- "Open up" government procurement
- Better public access to government data
- Councils to be forced to publish data on all spending over £500
What coalition says it's achieved: - Details of all government spending over £25,000 published
- Nearly 9,000 datasets published at data.gov.uk
- Process of consolidating government websites under way
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Government should publish more details of meetings with party donors
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Publish more details on meetings between politicians and media figures
- Implement Open Data and Transparency White Paper
- Open up government procurement wider
- Complete transition to new gov.uk website
- Support people who are unable to use digital services
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Annual limit on non-EU immigration
- End detention of children for immigration purposes
- Create border police force
- Minimise abuse of immigration rules
What coalition says it's achieved: - Net migration has fallen by 59,000 to 183,000
- Cap on non-EU immigration introduced
- Requirement that some migrants speak English
- Bogus colleges abolished
- Detention of children for immigration purposes now ended
- Asylum cases resolved faster
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Action on illegal immigration being weakened
- Border checks in summer 2011 abandoned
- UK Border Agency losing 5,000 staff due to cuts
- Queues at borders have been "embarrassing"
- Serious backlog on asylum and immigration cases
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Cut immigration further
- 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Increase aid to 0.7% of Gross National Income from 2013, and enshrine this commitment in law
- Encourage other countries to fulfil their aid commitments
- Support millennium development goals and democratic reforms
- Give public a say in how aid is spent
- Reduce maternal and infant mortality
- Take action against "vulture funds"
What coalition says it's achieved: - Aid spending refocused on countries in most need and best performing international institutions
- Established new body to examine effectiveness of aid spending
- Raised funds to immunise 250 million children
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Ministers have not yet legislated on the 0.7% commitment
- Aid budget being cut by more than £1.8bn
- Aid to Rwanda restored despite evidence of involvement in DRC conflict
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Deliver on commitment to 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Introduce payment-by-results in welfare-to-work
- Make benefits conditional on "willingness to work"
- Re-assess incapacity benefit claims
- Support unemployed people keen to start new businesses
- Simplify the benefits system
What coalition says it's achieved: - Reforms will save £19bn per year by 2014-15
- Benefits cap to apply from 2013
- Universal Credit to simplify benefits system "radically"
- Number of people on incapacity benefits cut by 145,000
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Benefits reforms hitting working people not "scroungers"
- Welfare-to-work programme less effective "than doing nothing"
- Welfare bill £13bn higher than planned
- Universal Credit late and over-budget
- Number of long-term unemployed young people doubled
- "Genuinely ill" people suffering from changes to incapacity benefits
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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"
Original coalition agreement pledges: - "Rehabilitation revolution" to pay independent providers able to cut reoffending
- Review sentencing policy and legal aid
- Establish new rape crisis centres
- Anonymity for defendants in rape cases
- Increased use of restorative justice
What coalition says it's achieved: - Payment-by-results pilot schemes helping to tackle reoffending
- More offenders receiving drug treatment
- Improved support for victims
- Legal aid restricted to "serious issues"
- Mandatory prison time for aggravated knife possession
- New offence of causing serious injury by dangerous driving
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Abolition of indeterminate sentences has weakened public protection
- Legal aid harder to claim in domestic violence cases
- Punishment for knife crime not as tough as promised
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - National Security Council established
- Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) to be carried out
- Control Orders to be reviewed urgently
What coalition says it's achieved: - National Security Council meeting each week
- SDSR completed
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Handling of Abu Qatada deportation case "shambolic"
- Replacement of control orders has weakened restrictions on terror suspects
- "Chaos" at UK borders in summer 2011 mean a number of people entered the country without the proper checks
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Increase health spending above inflation every year
- "Stop the top-down reorganisations of the NHS"
- Axe a number of health quangos
- Cut administration costs by a third
- GPs to gain role in health service commissioning
- Directly elected members of primary care trust boards
- Patients to be able to choose GP and rate services
- Dementia research to be prioritised
What coalition says it's achieved: - Health budget increased in real terms in 2011-12, and set to increase every subsequent year
- Transition of commissioning of health services to GP-led groups under way
- Pilot schemes set up in which patients can choose GPS
- Reduced early preventable death from cancer
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Changes amount to "biggest top-down reorganisation of the NHS in its history"
- Reforms will cost £3bn and increase bureaucracy
- NHS spending cut "two years running" and £1bn spent on redundancies
- 7,000 nursing jobs cut since 2010
- Number of patients facing long waits in A&E has doubled
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - State pension to rise each year by the highest of earnings, prices and 2.5%
- Phase out default retirement age and raise state pension
- Compensate Equitable Life policy holders
- Protect winter fuel allowances, free TV licences, free bus travel, and free eye tests and prescriptions for older people
What coalition says it's achieved: - "Triple lock" plan on state pension now in place
- State pension age to increase to 66 by 2020 and 68 by 2028
- Age-related universal protected
- Default retirement age abolished
- Payments to Equitable Life policy holders have begun
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Winter fuel allowances being cut
- Pensioners will lose out after tax changes
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Expand automatic enrolment in workplace pensions
- Reform public sector pensions
- Carry through planned changes to state pension age
- Continue to protect age-related universal benefits
- Increase incentives for pension savings
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Fixed-term Parliaments of five years
- Cut number of MPs and make constituencies more equal in size
- Referendum on AV
- Power of recall over MPs
- Committee to bring forward proposals for an elected House of Lords
- Commons reforms to go ahead, including introduction of backbench business committee
- Move to individual voter registration
- Number of special advisers to be capped
- Reform MPs' pensions
- Petitions with over 100,000 signatures to be eligible for parliamentary debate
- More public consultation on legislation
- Council tax payers to be given right to veto "excessive" increases
What coalition says it's achieved: - Fixed-term Parliaments now in place
- AV referendum confirmed support for status quo
- Process of establishing individual voter registration under way
- Agreement on ending male primogeniture in royal succession rules and allowing heirs to the throne to marry Catholics
- Reforms have improved working of Commons
- Significant decentralisation of power to local authorities
- E-petitions website live and debates ensuing
- Council tax referendums now possible
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Lords reform failed
- Boundary changes and cut to number of MPs "faltering"
- 100 new peers created, costing more than predicted savings from smaller Commons
- Special advisers increased in number after proposed cap ditched
- Government yet to "clean up" lobbying
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Persevere with statutory register of lobbyists
- Pursue agreement on party funding reform
- Legislate for power 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Shake-up of state school system to allow "new providers" to start schools
- Additional funding for schools with poorer pupils
- Help schools to reward good teachers and tackle underperformers
- Anonymity for "teachers accused by pupils"
- Increased flexibility in the exam system
What coalition says it's achieved: - 80 new "free schools" opened and a further 102 due to open in 2013
- 60% of schools have already become academies or are converting
- The "pupil premium" means that schools receive £623 per pupil on free school meals
- Simplified Ofsted school ratings
- Creation of English Baccalaureate
- Strengthen right of teachers to impose discipline
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - GCSE system has been in "chaos"
- New curriculum too "narrow", failing to equip young people for job market
- Government responsible for "biggest cut to education funding since the 1950s"
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Pupil premium to increase to £900 per pupil 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Support the creation and expansion of mutuals, co-operatives, charities and social enterprises
- Public sector workers to form co-operatives and take over delivery of services
- Encourage volunteering and charitable giving
- Introduce National Citizen Service
- Found a Big Society bank to finance local charities and social enterprises
What coalition says it's achieved: - "Big Society Capital" in place, funded by high street banks and money from dormant accounts
- More than 8,400 people have taken part in a pilot of the National Citizen Service
- 12,000 ATMs now enable people to donate to charity while withdrawing cash
- Charities now able to claim Gift Aid-style payments on small cash donations
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Big Society policy "mired in confusion", having been relaunched five times
- Changes to tax relief on charitable given - which were abandoned - would have had "serious" detrimental impact on charities
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Commission to report on long-term care
- Direct payments for carers
- Disabled people to be able to apply for jobs with funding secured for new equipment, if required
What coalition says it's achieved: - Support in principle for Dilnot Commission on long-term care
- More funding for adult social care
- NHS funding to help carers receive breaks
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Funding for older people's care cut by £1.4bn
- Delay over Dilnot review means no change before 2015
- Insufficient provision of care in the community or at home, costing NHS hundreds of millions of pounds
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Increase income tax threshold to help low- and middle-income earners
- Lib Dems to be allowed to abstain on tax breaks for married couples
- Tackle tax avoidance
What coalition says it's achieved: - Lower tax for low- and middle-income households
- More tax relief for entrepreneurs
- Higher taxes on the wealthiest, e.g. higher stamp duty on expensive homes
- £1bn invested in tax avoidance
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Highest earners benefiting from reduction in top rate of income tax
- VAT has been hiked to 20%
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Further increase the income tax threshold 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - National recharging network for electric cars
- Promote private sector investment in rail infrastructure by granting longer franchises
- Create high-speed rail network in stages
- Promote cycling and walking
- Curb rogue wheel clampers
What coalition says it's achieved: - Significant expansion of road network
- Biggest investment in railways since Victorian times
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Train fares hiked by up to 9.2% this year
- At least £40m wasted on West Coast rail franchise "fiasco"
- Network Rail bosses paid "huge" bonuses
- Local government funding cuts resulting in fewer bus services
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Support internships and apprenticeships
- Free colleges from state control
- Allow Lib Dems to abstain if they do not accept findings of university funding review
What coalition says it's achieved: - University system secure thanks to increase in tuition fees
- More financial support for poorer students
- Almost a million apprenticeships created
- Investment in science and research
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Higher fees regime to cost taxpayer up to £1bn more than previous system
- Abolition of Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) hitting poorer students
- Further and higher education funding from central government "slashed"
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
| Original coalition agreement pledges: - Commission to look at "structural" banking reform
- New banking levy
- Clampdown on "unacceptable" bonuses
- More lending to businesses
What coalition says it's achieved: - Stability of banks has improved
- "Failed" regulatory system to be replaced in April
- Levy ensures banks make "fair" contribution
- "Unparalleled transparency" in bankers' pay
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Banks have been given tax cut and the levy is "weak"
- Bankers' bonuses remain "large" and transparency insufficient
- Banks not lending enough to viable small businesses
- Regulatory reform plans inadequate
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Further reforms to financial regulation, including a separation of retail and investment banking
- More competition among high-street banks
Original coalition agreement pledges: - No new regulation without "other regulation being cut by a greater amount"
- Simplify taxes for small businesses
- Create "most competitive corporate tax regime in the G20"
- Make it easier to start new businesses
What coalition says it's achieved: - Helped businesses create more than one million new jobs
- Cut corporation tax from 28% to 24% and legislate for 21% by 2014
- Cut top rate of income tax even as "the wealthiest pay more overall"
- Enabled business lending to increase
- Invested in high-tech industry, infrastructure, housing, and regional growth
- Curbed bureaucracy
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - More than 40,000 businesses have gone bust
- Take-up of National Insurance holiday scheme very low
- Workers' rights under threat
- Government has "no plan for jobs and growth"
- Regional growth scheme is "in chaos"
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Develop industrial strategy
- More investment in high-tech industry, infrastructure, and house-building
- Devolve powers over local economies
- Boost lending to businesses
- Ease burden of taxation on small businesses
- Cut regulation further
- Alter employment law, e.g. by introducing shared parental leave
- Promote British exports
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Great Repeal Bill, to include abolition of ID cards
- Safeguards for use of personal details on the DNA database
- Defend trial by jury
- Review libel laws
- End unjustified storage of data on web-usage
- Commission to assess case for British Bill of Rights
What coalition says it's achieved: - ID cards scrapped
- Abuse of anti-terror laws prevented
- System of monitoring suspected terrorists altered
- DNA retention curbed
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Plans for increased surveillance of web usage causing "huge alarm"
- Ministers forced to alter "secret courts" plans after Lords defeats
- DNA changes make it harder for police to catch criminals
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Complete process of reforming libel laws
- Boost scrutiny of security services
- Find right "balance" on trials involving matters of national security
- Consider the commission's report on the case for a new Bill of Rights
Original coalition agreement pledges: - "Radical" shift in power to local government and community groups
- Councils and residents to increase role in local planning decisions
- Bring empty homes into use, and promote shared housing ownership schemes
- Freeze council tax
- Improve energy efficiency of new housing
What coalition says it's achieved: - "Sweeping reforms" have increased local authorities' freedoms
- Council tax frozen
- Neighbourhoods have more power over planning
- Directly elected mayors introduced in Bristol, Leicester and Liverpool
- Retention of weekly refuse collections for 6 million households
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - House-building has fallen
- Rents and homelessness are rising
- Localism policies actually gave "extraordinary" new powers to central government
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Devolve more powers to local government
- Support local authorities keen to share services
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Regulators to have power to ban "excessive" charges for credit and store cards
- Better information for credit-card users
- End unfair bank charges
- Curb "abuses of power" by supermarkets
- Better information on different tariffs to be included in energy bills
- Establish a free national financial advice service
What coalition says it's achieved: - Energy companies will notify customers of cheaper tariffs
- The Money Advice Service has been established
- Car insurance premiums have been cut
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Government failing to stand up for consumers
- Train companies hiking fares after Labour's "strict cap" was abolished
- All top energy companies raising prices by between 10% and 20%
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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"
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Cut bureaucracy in policing
- Review police officers' terms of employment
- Directly elected oversight of police
- Publication of more crime data
- Public to hold police to account at regular meetings
- Bolster rights of homeowners to tackle burglars
- Ban on selling alcohol "below cost price"
What coalition says it's achieved: - Directly elected police and crime commissioners (PCCs)
- More than 500 million hits on crime data website
- Police bureaucracy cut
- Consultation on 45p-per-unit minimum price for alcohol
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Cuts will cost more than 15,000 police officer jobs
- Police powers to tackle anti-social behaviour being weakened
- Turnout for PCC elections was historically low
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - "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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - More scrutiny of BBC spending
- Promote local media
- Maintain free entry to national museums and galleries
- Help to ensure London 2012 Games and Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games are a success
- Improve administration of National Lottery
- Introduce "Olympics-style schools sport event"
- Cut bureaucracy for live music venues
- Increase broadband internet access
What coalition says it's achieved: - London 2012 Games were "successful and memorable"
- More than 15,000 schools signed up to School Games competition
- Cut costs for small venues keen to stage live music
- National museums and galleries still free to enter
- The National Audit Office now has access to BBC accounts
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - David Cameron was "shamed" into setting up Leveson Inquiry on media ethics, and then "rubbished its central recommendation"
- Jeremy Hunt did not lose his job as culture secretary despite "clear evidence" that had broken the ministerial code
- Ministers forced to scrap changes to tax on charitable giving
- Involvement in school sport now in decline
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Maintain Trident nuclear weapons system
- Cut MoD running costs by at least 25%
- "Rebuild" military covenant governing relationship between armed forces and society
- Review Armed Forces pay and quality of accommodation
- Improve treatment of injured personnel
- Support defence exports that are not used for "internal repression"
What coalition says it's achieved: - Trident maintained and defence spending large compared with most other countries
- MoD costs cut and 20,000 civilian jobs shed
- Military covenant enshrined in law
- Government support for defence exports continues, although rules tightened due to "lessons learned from the Arab Spring"
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Military personnel sacked months before pensions due
- Investment in accommodation being cut
- 30,000 Armed Forces job cuts will leave UK with "skills shortages"
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Reduce the deficit mainly by cutting spending rather than raising taxes
- Full Spending Review by Autumn 2010
- Reduce Child Trust Funds and cut tax credits for high earners
- Abolish a number of quangos
What coalition says it's achieved: - Deficit cut by a quarter
- Low earners protected
- Government spending now more efficient
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Government policies caused double-dip recession
- Borrowing is £212bn higher than planned
- Welfare bill is "soaring"
- Working families suffering due to below-inflation increases to in-work benefits
- The "very richest" receiving £3bn tax cut
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Press on with deficit reduction
- Set out detailed spending plans for 2015-16 fiscal year
- Bear down further on fraud and error in Whitehall spending
- Increase number of government procurement contracts going to small- and medium-sized enterprises
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Push for increase in EU emissions reduction target to 30% by 2020
- Generate more energy from renewable sources
- Invest in carbon capture and storage
- Found green investment bank
- Encourage marine energy, and energy from waste through anaerobic digestion
- Block third runway at Heathrow, and expansion of Gatwick and Stansted
- Improve home energy efficiency
What coalition says it's achieved: - £3bn allocated to new green investment bank
- Energy derived from renewables increasing
- £1bn investment in carbon capture and storage
- Helped "get EU back on track" to cutting energy consumption by 20% by 2020
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Solar power industry hit by changes to feed-in tariffs
- Investment in renewables has halved
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Criminalise the import or possession of illegally logged timber
- Launch tree-planting campaign
- Review governance of National Parks
- Work towards EU air quality standards
- Improve flood defences
- Encourage recycling
- A "carefully managed and science-led policy of badger control" to curb bovine TB
- Give MPs a free vote on repeal of the Hunting Act
What coalition says it's achieved: - Better deal for farmers, particularly milk producers
- Clearer food labelling
- Developed strategy on generating energy from waste via anaerobic digestion
- Lower fuel bills for remote communities
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Ministers forced into U-turn on selling publicly owned forests
- Support for badger cull goes against official advice
- Investment in flood defences cut by 27%
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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 the postponed badger cull
- Implement the "Ash Dieback Control Strategy"
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Tackle discrimination at work, including in pay packages
- Promote gender equality on company boards
- Offer Whitehall internships to ethnic minority candidates
What coalition says it's achieved: - Automatic retirement at 65 abolished
- Proportion of female board members up by about a half
- Past convictions for consensual gay relationships quashed
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Women hit hardest by spending cuts
- Insufficient action to curb childcare costs
- Ministers have abandoned a Labour bid to tackle the gender pay gap
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Legislate for same-sex marriages
- Compel companies that have "unequal pay practices" to change them
Original coalition agreement pledges: - UK to play a "strong and positive role" in the EU
- No further transfer of powers to Brussels without referendum
- Ensure that UK does not join euro
- Support EU enlargement
What coalition says it's achieved: - "Referendum lock" in place
- Group of 12 pro-market EU member states established
- Agreed to EU-Singapore free-trade deal
- Backed accession of Croatia to EU
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Veto at December 2011 summit showed "failure" of UK leadership
- David Cameron "sleepwalking" towards EU exit
- Decision to opt out of European Arrest Warrant undermines fight against international crime
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - End child poverty by 2020
- Free nursery care for pre-school children
- Refocus Sure Start centres on the neediest families
- "New approach" to helping families with multiple problems
- Crack down on "irresponsible" advertising to children
- Promote system of flexible parental leave
What coalition says it's achieved: - Payment-by-results scheme in place to help 120,000 most troubled families
- Children protected from irresponsible advertising
- Improvements in how child poverty is calculated
- Support for people aiming to set up childcare businesses
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Single-parent families worse off
- Families contributing more than banks to deficit reduction
- Sure Start funding cut, with 381 centres closing
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Work towards security in Afghanistan and peace in the Middle East
- Improve relations with India and maintain ties with the US
- Strengthen the Commonwealth and reform the UN Security Council
What coalition says it's achieved: - A transition to democracy in Libya
- Support for more open societies in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen
- Helped secure sanctions against Iran in response to nuclear programme
- Provided aid to victims of the conflict in Syria
- Progress in international efforts to tackle piracy off the coast of Somalia
- Promoted democratic reforms in Burma
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Government not committed to international institutions
- UK national interest neglected
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - More transparency in public sector pay
- Introduce a statutory register of lobbyists
- Reforms to party funding
- "Open up" government procurement
- Better public access to government data
- Councils to be forced to publish data on all spending over £500
What coalition says it's achieved: - Details of all government spending over £25,000 published
- Nearly 9,000 datasets published at data.gov.uk
- Process of consolidating government websites under way
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Government should publish more details of meetings with party donors
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Publish more details on meetings between politicians and media figures
- Implement Open Data and Transparency White Paper
- Open up government procurement wider
- Complete transition to new gov.uk website
- Support people who are unable to use digital services
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Annual limit on non-EU immigration
- End detention of children for immigration purposes
- Create border police force
- Minimise abuse of immigration rules
What coalition says it's achieved: - Net migration has fallen by 59,000 to 183,000
- Cap on non-EU immigration introduced
- Requirement that some migrants speak English
- Bogus colleges abolished
- Detention of children for immigration purposes now ended
- Asylum cases resolved faster
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Action on illegal immigration being weakened
- Border checks in summer 2011 abandoned
- UK Border Agency losing 5,000 staff due to cuts
- Queues at borders have been "embarrassing"
- Serious backlog on asylum and immigration cases
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Cut immigration further
- 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Increase aid to 0.7% of Gross National Income from 2013, and enshrine this commitment in law
- Encourage other countries to fulfil their aid commitments
- Support millennium development goals and democratic reforms
- Give public a say in how aid is spent
- Reduce maternal and infant mortality
- Take action against "vulture funds"
What coalition says it's achieved: - Aid spending refocused on countries in most need and best performing international institutions
- Established new body to examine effectiveness of aid spending
- Raised funds to immunise 250 million children
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Ministers have not yet legislated on the 0.7% commitment
- Aid budget being cut by more than £1.8bn
- Aid to Rwanda restored despite evidence of involvement in DRC conflict
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Deliver on commitment to 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Introduce payment-by-results in welfare-to-work
- Make benefits conditional on "willingness to work"
- Re-assess incapacity benefit claims
- Support unemployed people keen to start new businesses
- Simplify the benefits system
What coalition says it's achieved: - Reforms will save £19bn per year by 2014-15
- Benefits cap to apply from 2013
- Universal Credit to simplify benefits system "radically"
- Number of people on incapacity benefits cut by 145,000
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Benefits reforms hitting working people not "scroungers"
- Welfare-to-work programme less effective "than doing nothing"
- Welfare bill £13bn higher than planned
- Universal Credit late and over-budget
- Number of long-term unemployed young people doubled
- "Genuinely ill" people suffering from changes to incapacity benefits
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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"
Original coalition agreement pledges: - "Rehabilitation revolution" to pay independent providers able to cut reoffending
- Review sentencing policy and legal aid
- Establish new rape crisis centres
- Anonymity for defendants in rape cases
- Increased use of restorative justice
What coalition says it's achieved: - Payment-by-results pilot schemes helping to tackle reoffending
- More offenders receiving drug treatment
- Improved support for victims
- Legal aid restricted to "serious issues"
- Mandatory prison time for aggravated knife possession
- New offence of causing serious injury by dangerous driving
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Abolition of indeterminate sentences has weakened public protection
- Legal aid harder to claim in domestic violence cases
- Punishment for knife crime not as tough as promised
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - National Security Council established
- Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) to be carried out
- Control Orders to be reviewed urgently
What coalition says it's achieved: - National Security Council meeting each week
- SDSR completed
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Handling of Abu Qatada deportation case "shambolic"
- Replacement of control orders has weakened restrictions on terror suspects
- "Chaos" at UK borders in summer 2011 mean a number of people entered the country without the proper checks
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Increase health spending above inflation every year
- "Stop the top-down reorganisations of the NHS"
- Axe a number of health quangos
- Cut administration costs by a third
- GPs to gain role in health service commissioning
- Directly elected members of primary care trust boards
- Patients to be able to choose GP and rate services
- Dementia research to be prioritised
What coalition says it's achieved: - Health budget increased in real terms in 2011-12, and set to increase every subsequent year
- Transition of commissioning of health services to GP-led groups under way
- Pilot schemes set up in which patients can choose GPS
- Reduced early preventable death from cancer
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Changes amount to "biggest top-down reorganisation of the NHS in its history"
- Reforms will cost £3bn and increase bureaucracy
- NHS spending cut "two years running" and £1bn spent on redundancies
- 7,000 nursing jobs cut since 2010
- Number of patients facing long waits in A&E has doubled
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - State pension to rise each year by the highest of earnings, prices and 2.5%
- Phase out default retirement age and raise state pension
- Compensate Equitable Life policy holders
- Protect winter fuel allowances, free TV licences, free bus travel, and free eye tests and prescriptions for older people
What coalition says it's achieved: - "Triple lock" plan on state pension now in place
- State pension age to increase to 66 by 2020 and 68 by 2028
- Age-related universal protected
- Default retirement age abolished
- Payments to Equitable Life policy holders have begun
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Winter fuel allowances being cut
- Pensioners will lose out after tax changes
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Expand automatic enrolment in workplace pensions
- Reform public sector pensions
- Carry through planned changes to state pension age
- Continue to protect age-related universal benefits
- Increase incentives for pension savings
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Fixed-term Parliaments of five years
- Cut number of MPs and make constituencies more equal in size
- Referendum on AV
- Power of recall over MPs
- Committee to bring forward proposals for an elected House of Lords
- Commons reforms to go ahead, including introduction of backbench business committee
- Move to individual voter registration
- Number of special advisers to be capped
- Reform MPs' pensions
- Petitions with over 100,000 signatures to be eligible for parliamentary debate
- More public consultation on legislation
- Council tax payers to be given right to veto "excessive" increases
What coalition says it's achieved: - Fixed-term Parliaments now in place
- AV referendum confirmed support for status quo
- Process of establishing individual voter registration under way
- Agreement on ending male primogeniture in royal succession rules and allowing heirs to the throne to marry Catholics
- Reforms have improved working of Commons
- Significant decentralisation of power to local authorities
- E-petitions website live and debates ensuing
- Council tax referendums now possible
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Lords reform failed
- Boundary changes and cut to number of MPs "faltering"
- 100 new peers created, costing more than predicted savings from smaller Commons
- Special advisers increased in number after proposed cap ditched
- Government yet to "clean up" lobbying
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Persevere with statutory register of lobbyists
- Pursue agreement on party funding reform
- Legislate for power 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Shake-up of state school system to allow "new providers" to start schools
- Additional funding for schools with poorer pupils
- Help schools to reward good teachers and tackle underperformers
- Anonymity for "teachers accused by pupils"
- Increased flexibility in the exam system
What coalition says it's achieved: - 80 new "free schools" opened and a further 102 due to open in 2013
- 60% of schools have already become academies or are converting
- The "pupil premium" means that schools receive £623 per pupil on free school meals
- Simplified Ofsted school ratings
- Creation of English Baccalaureate
- Strengthen right of teachers to impose discipline
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - GCSE system has been in "chaos"
- New curriculum too "narrow", failing to equip young people for job market
- Government responsible for "biggest cut to education funding since the 1950s"
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Pupil premium to increase to £900 per pupil 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Support the creation and expansion of mutuals, co-operatives, charities and social enterprises
- Public sector workers to form co-operatives and take over delivery of services
- Encourage volunteering and charitable giving
- Introduce National Citizen Service
- Found a Big Society bank to finance local charities and social enterprises
What coalition says it's achieved: - "Big Society Capital" in place, funded by high street banks and money from dormant accounts
- More than 8,400 people have taken part in a pilot of the National Citizen Service
- 12,000 ATMs now enable people to donate to charity while withdrawing cash
- Charities now able to claim Gift Aid-style payments on small cash donations
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Big Society policy "mired in confusion", having been relaunched five times
- Changes to tax relief on charitable given - which were abandoned - would have had "serious" detrimental impact on charities
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Commission to report on long-term care
- Direct payments for carers
- Disabled people to be able to apply for jobs with funding secured for new equipment, if required
What coalition says it's achieved: - Support in principle for Dilnot Commission on long-term care
- More funding for adult social care
- NHS funding to help carers receive breaks
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Funding for older people's care cut by £1.4bn
- Delay over Dilnot review means no change before 2015
- Insufficient provision of care in the community or at home, costing NHS hundreds of millions of pounds
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Increase income tax threshold to help low- and middle-income earners
- Lib Dems to be allowed to abstain on tax breaks for married couples
- Tackle tax avoidance
What coalition says it's achieved: - Lower tax for low- and middle-income households
- More tax relief for entrepreneurs
- Higher taxes on the wealthiest, e.g. higher stamp duty on expensive homes
- £1bn invested in tax avoidance
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Highest earners benefiting from reduction in top rate of income tax
- VAT has been hiked to 20%
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - Further increase the income tax threshold 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - National recharging network for electric cars
- Promote private sector investment in rail infrastructure by granting longer franchises
- Create high-speed rail network in stages
- Promote cycling and walking
- Curb rogue wheel clampers
What coalition says it's achieved: - Significant expansion of road network
- Biggest investment in railways since Victorian times
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Train fares hiked by up to 9.2% this year
- At least £40m wasted on West Coast rail franchise "fiasco"
- Network Rail bosses paid "huge" bonuses
- Local government funding cuts resulting in fewer bus services
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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
Original coalition agreement pledges: - Support internships and apprenticeships
- Free colleges from state control
- Allow Lib Dems to abstain if they do not accept findings of university funding review
What coalition says it's achieved: - University system secure thanks to increase in tuition fees
- More financial support for poorer students
- Almost a million apprenticeships created
- Investment in science and research
Labour's verdict on coalition so far: - Higher fees regime to cost taxpayer up to £1bn more than previous system
- Abolition of Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) hitting poorer students
- Further and higher education funding from central government "slashed"
Coalition's mid-term 'to do' list: - 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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