NHS England will 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
NHS performance standards will be monitored and resuts published with the expressed aim by the Government of ensuring patients should expect to wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral for consultant-led treatment of non-urgent health conditions. This is presumably part of the Government’s pledge from the 2024 Labour Manifesto for NHS England will 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
NHS waiting times for patients awaiting routine appointments, teatments and surgical interventions must decrease compared with pre-July 2024.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
No new coal licences will be granted and a ban will be placed on fracking to help meet ‘Net Zero by 2030’.
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Offshore trusts to avoid inheritance tax will be abolished to make sure all those eligible to pay inheritance tax will do so.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Offshore wind will have been quadrupled by 2030 compared to pre-July 2024 levels.
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Oil and gas companies will no longer be able to exploit loopholes in windfall tax, ensuring that they pay an appropriate windfall on their excess profits.
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Other qualified professionals, such as opticians, will be given the powers and capabilities to make direct referrals to specialist services or tests for patients. Furthermore, selfreferral routes for appointments will be expanded where appropriate.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
People-smuggling gangs organising the small boat crossings of the Channel will be targeted.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
Powers of the Victims’ Commissioner must be increased by the end of the 2024-29 Parliament.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
Pre-release plans for those leaving custody must be created by prisons by the end of the 2024-29 Parliament.
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
Private schools will see their existing VAT exemption and business rates relief removed to raise further money through taxation for the Treasury, to be re-invested into additional resources for state schools.
Secretary of State for Education
Publicly-funded national museums, galleries, and other such publicly-funded institutions, will be required to increase the loans they can gain secured against the value of their collections of artefacts and works with the expressed aim of investing this money into ‘improv[ing] access to cultural assets’ (presumably by reducing/removing entry fees for visitors, perhaps with free entry mandated and paid for by new mandatory loans for socio-economically disadvantaged individuals and families). This could possible also mean making money from artefacts loaned back to institutions in their country of origin, such as the Benin Bronzes or Elgin Marbles.
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Rape cases, with specialist courts at every Crown Court location in England and Wales, to be fast tracked, with reduced times taken to reach an outcome by the end of the 2024-29 Parliament when compared with the average time taken/average number of cases concluded in the courts per year pre-July 2024.
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
Regulators will be tasked with reviewing, and likely publishing a Report, on the role social care workers can play in the monitoring of basic health treatment – perhaps reducing pressure on GPs and nurses.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Replacement of the current ‘wasteful’ bidding system for local funding with new multiyear funding settlements, to provide more security and stability for local authorities.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Residents within residential care homes will receive a new right, enshrined in law, to see their families without restriction.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Restrictions to be placed on international investors buying housing developments, especially in circumstances where the houses have not yet been built.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Right to buy will be restricted in order to ensure a greater stock of social rented housing.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Section 1 of the Equality Act 2010 was never implemented, but the Government plans to introduce this socio-economic duty, requiring public bodies to consider reducing inequalities from socio-economic disadvantage when making strategic decisions. This duty mandates transparent and effective measures to address inequalities stemming from occupation, education, residence, or social class.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Recorded incidents of violence against women and girls to be half what they were by July 2034 when compared with the 10-year average leading up to pre-July 2024.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
Specialist mental health professionals will be placed in every school, as paet of the 8,500 additional dedicated mental health professionals the 2024 Labour Manifesto pledged to fund and create.
Secretary of State for Education
Stalking Protection Orders will be strenghened by the Government with the explicit aim of giving women (and presumably also men) the right to know the identity of online stalkers (presumably their individual stalker/stalkers, not giving access to a database of all potential stalkers).
Secretary of State for the Home Department
Steps will be taken during the 2024-29 Parliament to ban the creation of new leasehold flats and ensure that commonhold (a form of ownership (or tenure) for multi-occupancy developments. Each unit-holder owns the freehold of their home, and a commonhold or residents’ association owns and manages the common parts of the property. There are standardised rules for commonhold, which was introduced in 2004) becomes the default form of ownership for newly-built flats in the UK.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Ten-year budgets will be introduced for key RandD institutions to replace the more volatile short funding cycles currently used.
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
The 29% investment allowance for qualifying expenditure will be removed on or after 1 November 2024. This means businesses will no longer receive tax relief on certain investments, which can impact their financial planning and investment strategies.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Affordable Homes Programme will be reformed to ensure more homes are delivered from existing funding, and support given to councils and housing associations to build more houses to contribute to the affordable housing supply.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
The amount of UK Aid being delivered into the Gaza Strip will increase compared with its pre-July 2024 levels.
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development affairs
The arrangements in the existing Scottish Fiscal Framework will be maintained and upheld, perhaps ruling out a renegotiation similar to what has been committed to in Northern Ireland and Wales.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
The asylum system will be reformed to try and make it run more efficiently.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
The average cost of energy will reduce below the level at which it was when the Government was elected in July 2024 by the end of the 2024-29 Parliament.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The average cost of food will reduce below the level at which it was when the Government was elected in July 2024 by the end of the 2024-29 Parliament.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The banking sector and its regulations will be reformed to encourage growth in the sector.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The British Business Bank will be reformed, with a stronger mandate to support devolved growth, which will enable greater access to capital for small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
Secretary of State for Business and Trade
The cost of school will be reduced on average for parents compared with the annual pre-July 2024 levels by limiting the number of branded items of uniform and PE kit that schools can require parents to pay for.
Secretary of State for Education
The compensation scheme for victims of the Windrush scandal must be running effectively by the end of the 2024-29 Parliament.
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The co-operative and mutuals sector will be doubled in size compared to pre-July 2024.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Chancellor will not increase National Insurance, the basic, higher, or additional rates of Income Tax, or VAT during the 2024-29 Parliamnent.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The current minimum wage system, which follows age bracketing, limits pay for 18, 19, and 20 year olds compared to 21 year olds and above, will be removed and standardised, which means there will be a standard minimum wage for all adults 18 and above.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The current professional standards for NHS managers will be regulated and reformed, to increase scrutiny, oversight and sanctions so that any NHS manager found guilty of serious misconduct can never do so again.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The current system of ‘full expensing’, a 100% first-year allowance which allows companies to claim a deduction from taxable profits that is equal to 100% of their qualifying expenditure in the year that expenditure is incurred, will be retained..
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The date for phasing out the sale of new cars with internal combustion engines, which was scrapped by the previous Government, will be restored so that no new cars with internal cobustion engines (ICEs) can be sold after 2030.
Secretary of State for Transport
The decision of the previous Government to downgrade the monitoring of antisemitic and Islamophobic hate will be reversed, possibly meaning the return of the widespread issuing of ‘Non-Crime Hate Incidents’ and the greater monitoring of public and online speech by police forces.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Early Career Framework will be updated and published after a review considers submitted and gathered evidence, to better set out out what early career teachers are entitled to learn about and learn how to do when they start their careers.
Secretary of State for Education
The Energy Security Investment Mechanism., the temporary tax on exceptional profits of oil and gas companies; part of the Energy Profits Levy, will be retained.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Equality Act 2010 currently protects women and single-sex spaces for each biological sex, and the Government has pledged to uphold the exemptions granted by the Equality Act 2010 that guarantees the creation and implementation of single-sex spaces for biological women and men.
Minister for Women and Equalities
The existing Energy Profit Levy of an additional 35% tax on the headline tax rate for oil and gas companies will be increased to 38%.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The existing NHS App will be reformed and updated to provide patients with more information about their records, care and plans, alongside providing easier access to information on local services, and notifications of vaccinations and health checks compared with the NHS App’s content and abilities pre-July 2024.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The existing NHS dental contract for dentists operating within the United Kingdom within the public sector will be reformed to tackle the root causes of NHS dentists leaving the profession and/or the country, to reduce the total numbers and/or proportion of dentists leaving compared with the rates pre-July 2024.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The existing non-dom status will be abolished and replaced with a new scheme for people who are legitimately only in Britain for a short period to reduce the number of British citizens residing overseas who do not pay UK taxes on their incomes.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The existing OFSTED inspection regime will be abolished and replaced by a new report card system which intents to tell parents clearly how schools are performing instead of single headline grading.
Secretary of State for Education
The existing rules determining how Members of the House of Lords can be removed when ‘disgraced’, presumably either publicly or legally disgraces or sanctioned, will be strenghtened to give greater powers to remove Members.
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The existing Universal Credit system, introduced by a previous Government, will be reviewed – and potentially changed or replaced – by the end of the 2024-29 Parliament. Notably this is not a commitment to change or abolish the system, just to ‘review’ it.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The existing Welsh Fiscal Framework will be renegotiated and redesigned by HM Government, which believes it is no longer fit for purpose. This could see greater funding and powers goven to the devolved Welsh administration.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
The former Government’s partnership with Rwanda will end and no migrants will be sent there, regardless of what money has previously been spent.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Government will act to ban ‘fleecehold’ on private housing estates – a term used to describe the plight of homeowners on new-build estates locked into private maintenance contracts for communal areas – by the end of the 2024-29 Parliament. About four million people are thought to be living under the private estates model.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
The former School Support Staff Negotiating Body, abolished by a previous Government, will be reinstated.
Secretary of State for Education
The gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poorest regions in England must be halved by the end of the 2024-29 Parliament by reviewing the causes of differences in lofe expenctancy and life outcomes and taking steps – perhaps defined by a published action plan – to reach this outcome of producing equality of outcome in life expectency across all regions and nations of the UK.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The Government will crack down on late payments to ensure small businesses and the self-employed are paid on time.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Government will create a new dedicated criminal offence for spiking – giving someone alcohol or drugs without them knowing or agreeing.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Government will create a new Race Equality Act to enshrine in law the full right to equal pay for Black, Asian, and other ethnic minority people, to strengthen protections against dual discrimination and to root out other racial inequalities in the workplace in both the private and public sectors.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Government will decrease the overall ‘mass dependence’ on food parcels to a level significantly below the pre-July 2024 level by the end of the 2024-29 Parliament.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Government will prioritise the building of new social rented housing and work to maintain both new and existing social housing stock by reviewing the increased right to buy discounts introduced in 2012.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
The government will finance the establishment of evidence-based early language intervention classes in all primary schools in England to enhance English language instruction for non-native speakers, facilitating their integration and comprehension of the English education system.
Secretary of State for Education
The Government will give His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services new powers to intervene with failing forces by the end of the 2024-29 Parliament.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Government will launch an inquiry into the Battle of Orgreave, in which striking miners and police violently clashed in 1984, and publish a report into what happened.
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The Government will retain the Triple Lock on state pensions – a rise which will either match the rate of inflation, average earnings or 2.5%; whichever is highest – every year until at least the end of the 2024-29 Parliament.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Government will take action to reduce the gender pay gap, building on the legacy of Barbara Castle’s Equal Pay Act 1970, which implemented into law measures to prevent discrimination, as regards terms and conditions of employment, between men and women
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Government will take action towards ending the use of animals in the scientific testing of products, initially by publishing a roadmap on how to achieve this aim.
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The Government will enact the proposals in the Labour 2024 Manifesto to ‘Make Work Pay in otder to support female workers by strengthening rights to equal pay and protections from maternity and menopause discrimination and sexual harassment.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Government, Department for Business and Trade, the Scotland Office and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office will champion ‘Brand Scotland’ (a partnership between the Scottish Government and other organizations that works to promote Scotland’s reputation globally) across the world to help increase the export of goods and services explicitly produced in Scotland to overseas markets.
Secretary of State for Business and Trade
The Government will work more closely with the private healthcare sector to negotiate the use of time, personnel, resources and appointments to help increase the number of NHS appointments, scans and operations to the target of 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. This likely entails tendering contracts to the private sector to fulfil public sector NHS needs.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The Government will work more closely with the Independent Commission for Aid Impact to create tighter and stricter rules to prevent UK Aid being misused or wasted, and to better ensure it is used as ‘effectively’ as possible.
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development affairs
The Government’s proposed Strategic Review into Probation will consider measures to further devolve powers over probation to devolved administrations in each of the Home Nations, and specifically negotiations with the Welsh Government will be opened to consider whether devolution in cases of youth justice should take place.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
The independent Kerslake Review will be published and detail how to improve military homes.
Secretary of State for Defence
The independent Office for Budgetary Responsibility will publicly review each and every one of the Government’s changes to spending, taxation and borrowing.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Industrial Strategy for the 2024-29 Parliament will focus on supporting development in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) sector, plus reform to remove barriers to enable the creation of new datacentres more easily.
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
The initiative requires all rental homes to meet minimum energy efficiency standards by 2030, meaning landlords must improve their properties to use less energy.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
The introduction of new ‘Respect Orders’, which gives the power to ban persistent adult offenders from town centres with the aim of reducing issues regarding public drinking and drug use. Fly-tippers and vandals will also be forced to clean up any mess that they have created.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Law Commission’s proposals (2020) on leasehold enfranchisement, right to manage and commonhold will be fully enacted in law. Bill linked >
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Legacy Act, passed by the previous Administration to deal with issues stemming from the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the Good Friday Agreement, and the decision to restrict the prosecution of veterans of HM Armed Forces post-conflict, will be repealed and replaced in line with the principles of the Stormont House Agreement of 2014.
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
The lifetime of existing nuclear power plants will be extended whilst also ensuring the completion of the already ongoing Hinkley Point C nuclear power station. New nuclear power stations such as Sizewell C, and Small Modular Reactors will be built to improve Britain’s low carbon energy supply and also help the new Government achieve ‘Net Zero by 2030’.
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Mental Health Act will be reviewed and ‘modernised’ to find ways to reduce the number of Black people being detained as a proportion of the total number of people being detained. The updated Act will likely water-down the ability of authorities to detain all people to achieve the expressed purpose of ‘give patients greater choice, autonomy, enhanced rights and support’.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme will be reviewed, specifically, the surplus arrangements, which entitles the Government to half the surplus cash from the scheme and instead transfer the Investment Reserve Fund back to members, thus removing money gained by the Government from the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme and giving it to the mineworkers.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The new Government will build several ‘new towns’, following in the footsteps of the New Towns Act 1946.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
The new Government will create a new Energy Independence Act that will establish and outline the framework for Labour’s energy and climate policies, specifically relating to how to achieve ‘Net Zero by 2030’.
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
The new Government will create nine new National River Walks, one in each region of England, recognising the importance of rivers in the UK’s natural heritage.
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The new Government will invest an additional £6.6 billion over the 2024-2029 Parliament to upgrade five million homes to reduce energy bills and improve energy efficiency for these homes.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
The new Government will not revoke existing licences given for oil and gas production pre-July 2024, and will work with businesses to manage their oil and gas production for the entirety of their lifespans.
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
The new Government will work with farmers and scientists to help eradicate Bovine TB, protecting animal life, and helping to end the culling of badgers.
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The new Government, whilst pursuing ‘Net Zero’, will maintain a number of gas power stations to guarantee the security of energy supply as they move towards lower/carbon neutral sources of energy.
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
The new inspection regime that will replace OFSTED will bring Multi-Academy Trusts into the inspection system, and a new annual review of safeguarding, attendance, and off-rolling will be created and published annually.
Secretary of State for Education
The new Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee would mean an increase in recruitment of ‘thousands’ of new police officers, PCSOs and special constables to restore patrols in local areas such as town centres, as well as improving community engagement through a visible “boots on the ground” style of policing.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
The new Skills England body which will be established by the new Government will work formally with the existing Migration Advisory Committee to make sure training in England accounts for the overall needs of the labour market, and that the changes to the previous Government’s points-based immigration system reflect the needs of the UK labour market when determining the annual rate of immigration (for workers).
Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Online Safety Act will be retained, reviewed and strenghtened, with new regulations and provisions being brought in as quickly as possible to protect people from harm online.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The parental leave system will be reviewed within the first year of the 2024-29 Parliament (July-2024 to July-2025) in order to ensure that the system operates in a way they delivers better support to ‘working families’.
Secretary of State for Education
The planned A27 bypass will be delayed until an unspecified date in order to pay for fixing 1 million more potholes per year than the pre-Juily 2024 annual rate for every year of the 2024-29 Parliament.
Secretary of State for Transport
The police and intelligence services will continue to function in their stated aims/roles.
Secretary of State for Defence
The pre-existing sunset clause in the Energy Profits Levy of 31 December 2025 will be extended to end of the 2024-2029 Parliament. . The sunset clause typically means that the levy is temporary and will automatically expire unless renewed.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The points-based immigration system introducd by the last Government will be changed.
Secretary of State for the Home Department