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# Conservative Manifesto

## Economy
## Economy and Democracy

* By 2020, personal allowance will be increased to £12,500 and the higher rate to
£50,000.
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* Ensure that big companies/contractors comply with the `Prompt Payment Code`.
* Make CCTV recording mandatory in slaughterhouses.
* Withdraw from the `London Fisheries Convention`.

### Finance



### Business



### Privatisation



### Employment


* Oblige all companies to give digital receipts, clearer terms and conditions when
selling goods and services online, and support new digital proofs of
identification.
* By the end of 2017, 19 out of 20 premises will have access to superfast
broadband.
* Ensure through the `Universal Service Obligation`, that every home and business
in Britain has access to high speed broadband.
* Introduce a full fiber connection voucher for companies across the country by
2018.
* By 2022, extend mobile coverage further to 95% geographic coverage of the UK.
* By 2022, ensure all major roads and mainline trains have uninterrupted phone
service and guaranteed WiFi internet on all such trains.
* Have a majority of the UK population covered by a 5G signal by 2027.
* Give people the ability to require major social media platforms to delete
information about them at the age of 18.
* Institute an expert `Data Use and Ethics Commission`.
* Continue a £1.9 billion investment in cyber security.
* Repeal section 40 of the `Crime and Courts Act 2014`.
* Create a new presumption of digital government services by default.
* Create a new `Schools Map` to help parents choose the school that is right for
their child.
* Roll out `Verify` so that people can identify themselves on all government
services by 2020.
* Reduce data duplication across all systems, so that we automatically comply
with the `Once Only` principle in central government services by 2022 and
wider public services by 2025.
* Combine the relevant parts of `HM Land Registry`, `Ordnance Survey`, the
`Valuation Office Agency`, the `Hydrographic Office` and `Geological Survey`
to create a comprehensive geospatial data body in government.
* Establish a regulatory framework in law to underpin the digital charter.

## Brexit

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* Bring forward a new integration strategy.
* Establish a `Commission for Countering Extremism`.

### Trade and Brexit



## Education
## Education and Childcare

* Build at least 100 new free schools a year.
* Prohibit councils from creating any new places in schools that have either been
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* Ensure that teaching assistants can become qualified teachers, and healthcare
nurses can become nurses via a degree apprenticeship route.
* Introduce a `Right to Lifelong Learning in Digital Skills`.

## Environment
* Introduce 30 hours of free childcare for 3 to 4 year olds for working families
who find it difficult to manage the costs of childcare.
* Institute a capital fund to help primary schools develop nurseries.
* Introduce the presumption that all new primary schools should include a nursery.
* Publish a green paper on young peoples' mental health before the end of this
year.
* Introduce mental health first aid training for teachers in every primary and
secondary school by the end of parliament and ensure every school has a single
point of contact with mental health services.

## Environment and Animal Cruelty

* Want almost every car and van to be zero-emission by 2050- invest £600 million
by 2020 to help achieve it.
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* Grant a free vote, on a government bill in government time, to give parliament
the opportunity to decide the future of the `Hunting Act`.
* Produce a 25 year environment plan that will chart how we improve the environment.

### Energy

* Continue to support natural resource extractions from the `North Sea` and support
the oil and gas sector.
* Commission an independent review into the cost of energy.
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councils to use and to make it easier and less expensive for councils to use
and to make it easier to determine true market value of sites.
* Continue the £2.5 billion flood defense programme which should protect 300,000
existing homes by 2021.
existing homes by 2021.

## Healthcare

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modern prison places.
* Create a `National Community Sentencing Framework`.

## Additional Infrastructure
### Local Communities

* Strengthen the enforcement of equalities law.
* Introduce a `Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill` to consolidate all civil and
criminal prevention and protection orders and provide for a new aggravated
offense is behavior is directed towards a child.

### Local Communities



### Transport



### Sport



### Social Services and Security

* Adopt a `Breathing Space` scheme so that somebody in problem debt can apply
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receiving care at home.
* Means-test winter fuel payments.

### Tourism



### Culture and Arts



### Animal Welfare



### Democracy



### Security

### Women
### Diverse Communities

* Require companies with >250 employees to publish more data on the pay gap
between men and women.

### LGBTQ+ Rights



### Diverse Communities

* Reduce the disproportionate use of force against black, asian and ethnic minority
people in prison, young offenders institutions and secure mental health units.
* Launch a national campaign to increase the number of black, asian and ethnic
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