added industry, economy and education policy to lib dem

labour.md

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 ## Environment and Animal Cruelty
 
 * Introduce an immediate emergency price cap to ensure that the average duel-fuel
-household energy bill remains <£1000 per year.
+  household energy bill remains <£1000 per year.
 * Alter the `National and Regional Network Operator` license conditions.
 * Support the creation of publicly-owned energy companies- at least 1 in every region.
 * Permit publicly-owned companies to buy the regional grid infrastructure.
 * Insulate 4 million homes as an infrastructure priority.
 * Homeowners offered interest-free loans to improve their property.
-* Improve existing `Landloard Energy Efficiency Regulations` and re-establish the
-`Landloard Energy Saving Allowance`.
+* Improve existing `Landlord Energy Efficiency Regulations` and re-establish the
+  `Landlord Energy Saving Allowance`.
 * Ban fracking.
 * Protect the vital North Sea assets.
 * Support further nuclear projects.
 * Put the UK back on track to meet targets in the `Climate Change Act` and the
-`Paris Agreement`.
+  `Paris Agreement`.
 * Introduce a new `Clean Air Act`.
-* Keep forests in public hands and plan a million trees.
+* Keep forests in public hands and plant a million trees.
 * Increase the maximum sentence for those convicted of animal cruelty.
 * Prohibit the 3rd party sale of puppies.
 * Introduce and enforce a total ban on ivory trading.

liberaldemocrats.md

@@ -1,24 +1,76 @@
-# Labour Manifesto
+# Liberal Democrat Manifesto
 
 ## Economy and Democracy
 
-
+* Spend on housebuilding to help build 300,000 homes a year
+  by 2022.
+* End the 1% cap on pay rises in the public sector, and uprate wages in line
+  with inflation.
+* Reforms to Capital Gains Tax and dividend tax relief, and refocusing
+  entrepreneurs’ relief. We would reverse a number of the Conservatives’ unfair
+  and unjustified tax cuts, including:
+  * The cutting of Corporation Tax from 20% to 17%.
+  * Capital Gains Tax cuts.
+  * Capital Gains Tax extended relief.
+  * The Marriage Allowance.
+  * The raising of the Inheritance Tax threshold
+* Introduce a `General Anti-Avoidance Rule`, setting a target for `HM Revenue &
+  Customs` to reduce the tax gap.
+* Reform `Corporation Tax`- consult on shifting away from a profits-based tax to
+  one that takes account of a wider range of economic activity indicators.
+* Review the `Business Rates` system.
+* Consider the implementation of `Land Value Taxation`.
+* Require the major banks to fund the creation of a local banking sector
+  dedicated to meeting the needs of local SMEs.
 
 ### Deficit Reduction
 
 
 
 ### Infrastructure
 
-
+* Continued commitment to HS2, Crossrail 2 and rail electrification.
+* Implement a programme of installing hyperfast, fibre-optic broadband across
+  the UK.
+* £5 billion of initial capital for a new `British Housing and Infrastructure
+  Development Bank`.
+* Continue to champion the `Northern Powerhouse and Midlands Engine`
+  initiatives and invest significant capital resources in infrastructure projects
+  across the north of England and the Midlands.
 
 ### Industry
 
-
+* Expand the activities of the state-owned `British Business Bank`.
+* Create a new `start-up allowance`.
+* Review `Business Rates`.
+* Reform the `Regulatory Policy Committee`.
+* Protect the science budget by continuing to raise it at least in line with
+  inflation.
+* Major expansion of high-quality apprenticeships, including advances
+  apprenticeships.
+* Invest to ensure that broadband connections and services to be provided
+  before 2020 have a speed of 2 Gbps or more, with fibre to the premises (FTTP)
+  as standard and unlimited usage by 2020 across the whole of the UK.
+* Grow a network across the UK acting as incubators for technology companies.
+* Retain coding on the national curriculum in England.
+* Continue to support the `Creative Industries Council`.
+* Encourage employers to promote employee ownership by giving staff in listed
+  companies with more than 250 employees a right to request shares, to be held
+  in trust for the benefit of employees.
 
 ### Employment
 
-
+* Raise the employee national insurance threshold to the Income Tax threshold.
+* Extend transparency requirements on larger employers to include publishing
+  the number of people paid less than the living wage and the ratio between top
+  and median pay.
+* Stamp out the abuse of zero-hours contracts. Create a formal right to request
+  a fixed contract and consult on introducing a right to make regular patterns of
+  work contractual after a period of time.
+* Reduce the reporting requirement for disclosure of shareholdings to 1% in
+  order to increase transparency over who owns stakes in the biggest
+  companies.
+* Require binding and public votes of board members on executive pay policies.
 
 ## Brexit
 
@@ -46,19 +98,121 @@
 
 ## Education and Childcare
 
-
+* Reverse all cuts to front-line school and college budgets.
+* Protect per-pupil funding in real terms.
+* Introduce a national funding system with a protection for all schools, so that
+  no school loses money.
+* Protect the `Pupil Premium`.
+* Increase the `Early Years Pupil Premium` to £1000 per pupil per year.
+* Aim for every formal early years setting to employ at least 1 person who holds
+  an early years teaching qualification by 2022.
+* End the 1% cap on teachers' pay rises.
+* Guarantee that all teachers in state-funded schools will be fully qualified or
+  working towards `Qualified Teacher Status` from January 2019.
+* Introduce an entitlement to professional development for all teachers- 25 hours
+  per year by 2020, rising to the `OECD` average of 50 hours by 2025.
+* Establish an independent `Education Standards Authority`.
+* Reform Ofsted inspections.
+* Support the establishment of a new, independent `Foundation for Leadership in
+  Education`, working under the `Chartered College of Teaching`.
+* Scrap the planned expansion of grammar schools and devolve all capital monies
+  for new school spaces to local authorities.
+* Rule out state-funded profit-making schools.
+* Introduce a `Curriculum Entitlement`- a slimmed down core national curriculum,
+  which will be taught in all state-funded schools- including PSHE which will
+  cover financial literacy, first aid and emergency lifesaving skills, mental
+  health education, citizenship and age-appropriate Sex and Relationship Education.
+* Work with the profession to reform tests at 11, preventing curriculum narrowing
+  in upper `Key Stage 2`.
+* Challenge gender stereotyping and early sexualisation, working with schools to
+  promote positive body image and break down outdated perceptions of gender
+  appropriateness of particular academic subjects.
+* Ensure that all teaching staff have the training to identify mental health
+  issues and that schools provide immediate access for pupil support and
+  counselling.
+* Include promoting wellbeing as a statutory duty of a school, and be part of the
+  Ofsted inspection framework.
+* Extend free school meals to all children in primary education and promote
+  school breakfast clubs.
+* Establish a new online `Family University`.
+* Reinstate maintenance grants for the poorest students.
+* Require every university to be transparent about selection criteria.
+* Fight to retain access to `Horizon 2020` and `Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions
+  funding`.
+* Reinstate quality assurance for universities applying for degree-awarding powers.
+* Aim to double the number of businesses which hire apprentices.
+* Work with the `Apprenticeship Advisory Group` to increase the number of
+  apprentices from `BAME` backgrounds, ensure gender balance across industry
+  sectors and encourage under-represented groups to apply.
+* Expand higher vocational training such as `foundation degrees`, `Higher National
+  Diplomas`, `Higher National Certificates` and `Higher Apprenticeships`.
+* Ensure that all the receipts from the Apprenticeship Levy in England are spent
+  on training, aiming to fund a wider range of types of training.
+* Aim to meet all basic skills needs by 2030.
 
 ## Environment and Animal Cruelty
 
-
+* Additional funding to bring more private investment into renewable energy.
+* Provide assistance to areas heavily dependent on fossil fuel industries, such as
+  the north-east of Scotland, to diversify away from these industries.
+* Give the immediate go-ahead to the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project.
+*
 
 ## Housing
 
 
 
 ## Healthcare
 
-
+* Immediate 1p rise on the basic, higher and additional rates of Income Tax to
+  raise £6billion additional revenue to be spent only on NHS and social care
+  services.
+* Commission the development of a dedicated health and care tax on the basis of
+  wide consultation, possibly based on the reform of National Insurance
+  contributions.
+* Establish a cross-party health and social care convention to carry out a
+  comprehensive review of the longer-term sustainability of the health and
+  social care finances and workforce.
+* Introduce a statutory independent budget monitoring agency for health and care.
+* Guarantee the rights of all NHS and social care staff who are EU Nationals to
+  stay in the UK.
+* End the public sector pay freeze for NHS workers.
+* Reinstate student nurse bursaries.
+* Protect NHS whistle-blowers.
+* Produce a national workforce strategy.
+* Increase access to clinically- and cost-effective talking therapies.
+* Continue to roll out access and waiting time standards for children, young
+  people and adults. Includes a guarantee that people will not wait more than 6
+  weeks for therapy for depression or anxiety, and no young person will wait more
+  than 2 weeks for treatment when they experience a first episode of psychosis.
+* Transform mental health support for pregnant women, new mothers and those who
+  have experienced miscarriage or stillbirth.
+* Promote and invest in the `Frontline` programme to fast-track exceptional
+  graduates into children's social work. Also promote and invest in the `Think
+  Ahead` scheme.
+* End out-of-area placements.
+* Ensure that all front-line public service professionals receive better training
+  in mental health.
+* Roll out the `Liaison and Diversion Programme` nationally.
+* Implement a cap on the cost of social care.
+* Move towards single place-based budgets for health and social care by 2020.
+* Introduce a statutory code of conduct backed up by a care workers' suitability
+  register.
+* Raise the amount people can earn before losing Carer's Allowance from £110 to
+  £150 per week.
+* Give the NHS a legal duty to identify carers and develop a Carer's Passport
+  scheme to inform carers of their NHS rights.
+* Provide more choice at end of life and move towards free end-of-life social care.
+* Promote easier access to GPs, provide national support to struggling GP practices.
+* Encourage GPs and clinicians to work in disadvantaged areas through our `Patient
+  Premium`.
+* Publish a `National Wellbeing Strategy`.
+* Make `Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis` for HIV prevention available on the NHS.
+* Support effective public awareness campaigns such as `Be Clear on Cancer`.
+* Develop a strategy to tackle childhood obesity.
+* Introduce mandatory targets on sugar reduction for food and drink producers.
+* Introduce a `wellbeing premium` to reward employers to take clear action to
+  measurably improve the health of their employees.
 
 ## Security & Defense
 
@@ -74,7 +228,7 @@
 
 ### Diverse and Cultured Communities
 
-
+* Ensure that LGBT+ inclusive mental health services receive funding and support.
 
 ### Disabilities and Mental Health