reate one million more skilled jobs.
· Creating UK Finance for Growth, bringing? 4 billion together to provide capital for growing businesses
No stamp duty for first-time buyers on all house purchases below? 250,000 for two years, paid for by a five per cent rate on homes worth more than? 1 million.
A National Minimum Wage rising at least in line with average earnings.
As for the health care, Labour believes the NHS is its «greatest achievement»:
· Key health promises <# «justify"> · A major expansion of diagnostic testing.
· The right to choose a GP in your area open at evenings and weekends.
Education policy. Every primary schoolchild needing one-to-one tuition would receive it under Labour plans and Teach First, a scheme that recruits top graduates into teaching in secondary schools, would be extended to posts at primary schools.parents are unhappy with a school s performance, they would get the power to bring in new school leadership teams through mergers and takeovers., promises to let the best schools take over the worst have been around for several years, and teachers unions have dismissed a plan for parental ballots as an impractical and unworkable gimmick.
Specific schools policies <# «justify"> · An expansion of free nursery places for two-year-olds and 15 hours a week of flexible, free nursery education for three and four-year-olds.
· Every child leaving primary school secure in the basics.
· Giving parents the power to bring in new school leadership teams, through mergers and takeovers, with up to 1,000 secondary schools part of an accredited schools group by 2015.
· Every young person guaranteed education or training until 18, with 75 per cent going on to higher education, or completing an advanced apprenticeship or technician level training, by the age of 30
· Spending increased on frontline Sure Start and free childcare, schools and 16-19 learning.
Tax. Labour promised not to raise the basic, higher and new top rates of tax during the next Parliament, as part of a plan to keep to fair tax increases while tackling the deficit.party also said it would not extend the application of VAT to food, children s clothes, books, newspapers and public transport fares, as this would hurt families on lower incomes.the wording of the VAT pledge clearly leaves open the possibility that , if re-elected, a Labour government could raise more money by increasing the rate of the sales tax from the current 17.5 per cent, even if it does not impose it on new classes of goods.
Labour's specific tax policies <# «justify"> · A new Toddler Tax Credit of? 4 a week from 2012
· No stamp duty for first-time buyers on all house purchases below? 250,000 for two years, paid for by a five per cent rate on homes worth more than? 1 million
· More help for parents to balance work and family life, with a Father s Month of flexible paid leave
· Link between the Basic State Pension and earnings re-established from 2012
· Help people to build up savings through new Personal Pension Accounts.
Environment. Labo...
