UK Parliament Elections 2010 - Page 7

* Cutting taxes for millions of working people by increasing the income tax threshold to £10,000, paid for by tackling tax avoidance and by a "mansion tax" of 1% on properties worth over £2 million.

* Setting a £400 pay rise cap for all public sector workers, initially for two years, ensuring that the lowest paid are eligible for the biggest percentage rise.

* Scrapping ID cards and the next generation of biometric passports, and removing innocent people from the DNA database.

* Reforming prisons by reducing the number of short-term prison sentences. There would be a "presumption against" jail terms of less than six months, with "rigorously enforced" community sentences favoured.

* Making prisoners work and contribute from their prison wages to a compensation fund for victims.

* Immediately restoring the link between the basic state pension and earnings and giving people more flexibility by allowing them to access part of their personal pension fund early.

* No like-for-like replacement of the Trident nuclear deterrent. The Eurofighter Tranche 3B would be cancelled and there would be a full defence review to establish Britain's future security.

* Introducing a banking levy so that banks pay back taxpayer support, until they can be split up in order to insulate retail banking from investment risks.

* Increasing funding for the most disadvantaged pupils, around one million children, by investing £2.5 billion in a "pupil premium". Headteachers would be free to spend this on cutting class sizes, attracting the best teachers or offering extra one-to-one tuition.

* Scrapping "unfair" university tuition fees for all students taking their first degree, including those studying part-time.

* Cutting the size of the Department of Health in half and abolishing unnecessary quangos.

* Giving a pay rise to the lower ranks of the Armed Forces so their pay is brought into line with the starting salary of the emergency services.

* Getting 3,000 more police on the beat and reducing time-wasting bureaucracy at police stations.

* In Parliament, introducing a "single transferable vote" system of proportional representation, where candidates are ranked in order of preference, and reducing the number of MPs by 150.

* Lowering the voting age to 16 and bringing in a recall system to sack MPs who have broken the rules, allowing constituents to force a by-election in cases of "serious wrongdoing".

* Capping political donations at £10,000 and limiting election spending; replacing the House of Lords with a fully-elected chamber with "considerably fewer members".

* Secure the recovery by supporting the economy and halving the deficit by 2014 through growth, fair taxes and cuts to lower priority spending.

* Will not raise basic, higher and new top rates of tax in the next Parliament.

* No extension of VAT on food, children's clothes, books, newspapers and public transport fares.

* Realise stakes in publicly-controlled banks, introduce a global levy and reform banking rules.

* Create UK Finance for Growth, bringing £4 billion together to provide capital for growing businesses.

* Up to 70,000 advanced apprenticeships a year and Skills Accounts for workers to upgrade their skills.

* Create one million skilled jobs and modernise infrastructure with high speed rail, a green investment bank and broadband access for all.

* No stamp duty for first-time buyers on all house purchases below £250,000 for two years, paid for by a 5% rate on homes worth more than £1 million.

* Require a super-majority of two-thirds of shareholders in corporate takeovers.

* Job or training place for young people out of work for six months but benefits cut at ten months if they refuse a place. Guarantee of work for anyone unemployed for more than two years.

* National Minimum Wage to rise in line with average earnings.

* Ensure excellence is spread across public services with 1,000 schools to become part of high standard accredited schools groups, every hospital a Foundation Trust and underperforming police forces or borough commanders replaced or taken over.

* Right to recall MPs, referendum on the alternative vote for the Commons, referendum on a democratic second chamber, free vote in Parliament on reducing the voting age to 16.

* Help for parents to balance work and family life, with a "Father's Month" of flexible paid leave.

* A new Toddler Tax Credit of £4 a week from 2012 to all parents of young children.

* National Care Service to ensure free care in the home for those with the greatest care needs, cap on the costs of residential care.

* Re-establish the link between the Basic State Pension and earnings from 2012.

* 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.

* Give 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% going on to higher education, or completing an advanced apprenticeship or technician level training, by the age of 30. "

* Safeguard Britain's credit rating with a credible plan to eliminate the bulk of the structural deficit over a Parliament set out in an emergency Budget within 50 days of taking office.

* Create the conditions for higher exports, business investment and savings, while cutting youth unemployment.

* Raise productivity growth in the public sector.

* Reform the regulation and structure of the banking system.

* Reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase the UK's share of global markets for low carbon technologies.

* Cut a net £6 billion of waste in departmental spending in 2010-11.

* Freeze public sector pay for one year in 2011.

* Cut ministers' pay by 5%, followed by a five-year freeze.

* Reduce the number of MPs by 10% and cap public sector pensions above £50,000.

* Reverse Labour's planned National Insurance hike for anyone earning under £35,000 next year.

* Create a single Work Programme for everyone who is unemployed.

* Boost small businesses with automatic rate relief.

* Cut the headline rate of corporation tax to 25p and the small companies' rate to 20p.

* Set an annual limit on the number of non-EU economic migrants admitted into the UK.

* Block plans for second runways at Stansted and Gatwick, while starting work on new high speed rail network.

* Freeze council tax for two years and scrap plans for a revaluation.

* Re-link the basic state pension to earnings and protect the winter fuel payment.

* Give every patient the power to choose any healthcare provider which meets NHS standards within NHS prices.

* Stop the "forced" closure of accident and emergency wards, and commission a 24/7 urgent care service in every area of England.

* Raise standards in schools by enhancing the status of teachers and allowing state schools the freedom to offer same high quality international exams that private schools offer.

* Give parents the power to save local schools threatened by closure.

* Crack down on drink and drug-fuelled violence.

* Cut police paperwork to get more officers on the beat.

* Give voters the right to kick out MPs found guilty of serious wrongdoing.

* Publish more data so the public can hold government to account.

* Permanently raise the stamp duty threshold to £250,000 for first-time buyers.

* Scrap ID cards, cut back surveillance powers and "intrusive" powers of entry into people's homes.

* Give Parliament a vote on repeal of the Hunting Act.

* Create a new National Security Adviser and develop a National Security Strategy.

* Double the operational allowance for Armed Forces serving abroad.

* Introduce a referendum "lock" ensuring a vote on the transfer of any more powers to the EU.