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A formal Review will be launched by the Government to outline how best to protect leaseholders from unfair costs that are not their faults – like paying for the replacement of poor/dangerous/illegal cladding on a building they hold the leasehold within – and ensure that remediation for ongoing disputes, past costs and demanded payments from building freehold owners occurs as quickly as possible, possibly with new powers for the Government or devolved or local authorities to step in mediate and/or adjudicate.

Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government

A new system to replace the ‘first-come first-serve’ NHS England appointment booking system will be created to enable all those who wish to have an appointment with the NHS to be able to book one and see a medical professional without having to wait in lengthy telephone or online queues each morning. Overall, waiting times for appointments, and the weekly and annual number of appointments, scans and operations will increase as part of the Government’s pledge to create an extra 2 million operations, scans and appointments for patients per year compared with the yearly average ending in July-2024 for each year until the end of the 2024-29 Parliament, which corresponds to 40,000 additional appointments, operations and scans per week for every year of the 2024-29 Parliament copared with the weekly rate pre-July 2024.

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

All existing strands of hate crime will be legally defined and made as an ‘aggravated offence’ in order to protect LGBT+ and disabled people (‘aggravated offence’ defined at section 28(1) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998). This is a specific racially or religiously aggravated version of an offence. These aggravated offences carry a higher maximum penalty than the basic equivalent offences. In the case of offences under section 4 or 4A of the Act, the racially or religiously aggravated version of the offence is either-way with the maximum penalty on indictment being two years’ imprisonment or an unlimited fine or both. The maximum penalty on summary conviction is six months’ imprisonment or an unlimited fine or both.

Secretary of State for the Home Department

Alongside the creation of a new mandatory professional standards on vetting, checks and misconduct for individual officers will be introduced within the 2024-29 Parliament by the Government, any police officer of police service member with a history of violence against women and girls will be barred from the service and automatic suspensions will be implemented and enacted if officers are investigated for domestic abuse and sexual offences by the end of the 2024-29 Parliament.

Secretary of State for the Home Department