Conservative manifesto 2019 pledges

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Complete	1
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Status	Pledge
Complete	Leave the European Union in January 2020
Unknown	Keep the UK out of the [EU] single market
Unknown	Keep the UK out of any form of customs union
Unknown	End the role of the European Court of Justice
Unknown	Take back control of UK laws
Unknown	Take back control of UK money
Unknown	Control our own trade policy
Unknown	Introduce an Australian-style points-based immigration system
Unknown	Raise standards in areas like workers' rights, animal welfare, agriculture and the environment
Unknown	Ensure we are in full control of UK fishing waters
Unknown	Do not extend the Brexit implementation period beyond December 2020
Unknown	Not borrow to fund day-to-day spending
Unknown	Invest thoughtfully and responsibly in infrastructure
Unknown	Public sector net investment will not average more than 3 per cent of GDP
Unknown	If debt interest reaches 6 per cent of revenue, reassess our plans to keep debt under control
Unknown	Debt will be lower at the end of Parliament
Unknown	Prioritise the environment
Unknown	Spend £34 billion per year for the NHS by the end of Parliament
Unknown	Build 40 new hospitals
Unknown	Boost early cancer diagnosis across 78 hospital trusts
Unknown	Within 3 months, enshrine in law the long-term NHS spending plan
Unknown	Reduce health inequality
Unknown	Repair PFI deals
Unknown	Invest in preventing disease as well as curing it
Unknown	Deliver 50,000 more nurses
Unknown	Students will receive a £5,000-£8,000 annual maintenance grant every year during their course
Unknown	Help with student childcare costs
Unknown	Deliver 6,000 more doctors in general practices
Unknown	Deliver 6,000 more primary care professionals
Unknown	Improve [NHS] staff morale
Unknown	Introduce an NHS Visa
Unknown	Fund 50 million extra general practice appointments per year
Unknown	Address the 'taper problem' in doctors' pensions
Unknown	Empower people with lifestyle-related conditions such as obesity to live healthier lives
Unknown	Promote the uptake of vaccines
Unknown	Extend social prescribing
Unknown	Overhaul NHS screening
Unknown	Focus on helping patients with multiple conditions
Unknown	Improve hospital food
Unknown	Develop new treatments for serious diseases
Unknown	Extend the Cancer Drugs Fund
Unknown	Improve the early diagnosis and treatment of all major conditions
Unknown	Treat mental health with the same urgency as physical health
Unknown	Make it easier for people with learning disabilities and autism to be discharged from hospital
Unknown	Tackle gambling addiction
Unknown	Improve NHS performance
Unknown	Use frontline technology to improve patients' experience
Unknown	Support hospices
Unknown	Make the NHS the best place in the world to give birth
Unknown	Extend healthy life expectancy by five years by 2035
Unknown	End unfair hospital car parking charges
Unknown	Clamp down on health tourism
Unknown	Increase the NHS surcharge
Unknown	When we negotiate trade deals, the NHS will not be on the table
Unknown	Give every person the dignity and security that they deserve [with respect to social care]
Unknown	Build the same level of consensus on social care as we have already built on the NHS
Unknown	Build a cross-party consensus on social care
Unknown	No one needing care should be forced to sell their home to pay for it
Unknown	Fund £1 billion in social care beginning April 2020 and for subsequent years
Unknown	Prioritise finding a cure for dementia
Unknown	Double research funding into dementia
Unknown	Speed up trials of new treatments for dementia
Unknown	Fund extra £74 billion over 3 years for additional capacity in community care settings for those with learning disabilities and autism
Unknown	Fund extra £5,000 a year for each secondary school pupil
Unknown	Fund extra £4,000 a year for each primary school pupil
Unknown	Fund extra £780 million to support children with Special Educational Needs in 2020
Unknown	Raise teachers' starting salaries to £30,000
Unknown	Back heads and teachers on discipline
Unknown	Back heads to use exclusions
Unknown	Help teachers tackle bullying
Unknown	Create more schools
Unknown	Support innovation [in education]
Unknown	Expand 'alternative provision' schools for excluded students
Unknown	Deliver more school places for children with complex Special Educational Needs
Unknown	Intervene in schools where there is entrenched underperformance
Unknown	Parents can choose the schools that best suit their children
Unknown	Continue to build more free schools
Unknown	Invest in arts, music and sport [in schools]
Unknown	Offer an 'arts premium' to secondary schools to fund enriching activities for all pupils
Unknown	Invest in primary school PE teaching
Unknown	Promote physical literacy and competitive sport
Unknown	Promote stable, loving placements for children in care
Unknown	Review the care system to ensure care placements provide children with the support they need
Unknown	Improve the Troubled Families programme
Unknown	Not to raise the rates of income tax, National Insurance or VAT
Unknown	Cut taxes
Unknown	Raise the National Insurance threshold to £9,500 in 2020
Unknown	Ensure first £12,500 earned is tax free
Unknown	Establish £1 billion fund to help create more high quality, affordable childcare
Unknown	Keep existing energy cap and introduce new measures to lower bills
Unknown	Extend water rebate for those in the South West
Unknown	Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person's bus pass and other pensioner benefits
Unknown	Conduct a comprehensive review to look at how to fix pension deficits cause by a loophole affecting people with net pay pension schemes
Unknown	Abolish the tampon tax
Unknown	Continue the roll-out of Universal Credit
Unknown	Punish those who commit benefit fraud
Unknown	Support the main carer in any household receiving the Universal Credit payment
Unknown	Reduce poverty, including child poverty
Unknown	Maintain commitment to free school meals
Unknown	Extend the entitlement to leave for unpaid carers
Unknown	Empower and support disabled people
Unknown	Reduce the number of reassessments a disabled person must go through
Unknown	Publish a National Strategy for Disabled People before the end of 2020
Unknown	Increase SEND funding
Unknown	Support pupils, students and adults to get careers advice, internships and transition into work
Unknown	Reduce the disability employment gap
Unknown	Back the police
Unknown	Back tasers and body cameras
Unknown	Put the Police Covenant into law
Unknown	Make it easier for police officers to stop and search those convicted of knife crime
Unknown	Anyone charged with knife crime will appear before magistrates within days
Unknown	Those who use a knife as a weapon should go to prison
Unknown	Introduce tougher sentencing for the worst offenders
Unknown	End automatic halfway release from prison for serious crimes
Unknown	Life imprisonment without parole for child murderers
Unknown	Prevent foreign national offenders entering the country
Unknown	Cut the number of foreign nationals in prisons
Unknown	Tackle drug-related crime
Unknown	Take a new approach to drug treatment to reduce drug deaths and related crime
Unknown	Create a prisoner education service focused on work-based training and skills
Unknown	Improve employment opportunities for ex-offenders
Unknown	Back police and prison officers and emergency service workers
Unknown	Strengthen the accountability of elected Police and Crime Commissioners and expand their role
Unknown	Expand electronic tagging
Unknown	Toughen community sentences
Unknown	Embrace new technologies and crack down on online crimes
Unknown	Create a national cyber crime force
Unknown	Empower police to safely use new technologies like biometrics and artificial intelligence
Unknown	Create a world-class National Crime Laboratory
Unknown	Counter the growing threat of serious and organised crime
Unknown	Strengthen the National Crime Agency
Unknown	Add 10,000 more prison places
Unknown	Maintain the ban on prisoners voting from jail
Unknown	Conduct a root-and-branch review of the parole system
Unknown	Establish a Royal Commission on the criminal justice process
Unknown	Combat extremism
Unknown	Ensure extremists never receive public money
Unknown	Keep the country safe from terrorism
Unknown	Invest in the police and security services and give them the powers they need
Unknown	Improve the safety and security of public venues
Unknown	Tack unauthorised traveller camps
Unknown	Arrest and seize the property and vehicles of trespassers who set up unauthorised encampments
Unknown	Make intentional trespass a criminal offence
Unknown	Support the victims of domestic abuse
Unknown	Increase support for refuges and community support for victims of rape and sexual abuse
Unknown	Pilot integrated domestic abuse courts
Unknown	Continue to fight crime against women and girls
Unknown	Protect people from physical attack or harassment
Unknown	Combat harassment and violence
Unknown	Protect those who work in countering extremism are protected from threats and intimidation
Unknown	Ban public bodies from imposing their own direct or indirect boycotts, disinvestment or sanctions campaigns against foreign countries
Unknown	Legislate to make the UK the safest place to be online
Unknown	Defend freedom of expression
Unknown	Tackle issues around loot boxes and credit card misuse
Unknown	Introduce a firmer and fairer Australian-style points-based immigration system
Unknown	Migrants will contribute to the NHS, and pay in before their receive benefits
Unknown	Attract the best and brightest [migrants] from all over the world
Unknown	Establish immigration controls and end freedom of movement
Unknown	There will be fewer lower-skilled migrants
Unknown	Reduce overall migrant numbers
Unknown	Create NHS Visa scheme
Unknown	Recruit leaders in their field to come to the UK
Unknown	Prioritise migrants who have a good grasp of English, are law-abiding, and have good education and qualifications
Unknown	Do not allow serious criminals into the country
Unknown	Keep track of who is coming in and out of the country
Unknown	Overhaul the current immigration system, and make it more fair and compassionate
Unknown	Treat EU and non-EU citizens equally
Unknown	EU citizens who came to live in the UK before Brexit can stay
Unknown	Create student visa scheme
Unknown	Create a start-up visa to attract entrepreneurs
Unknown	Tackle prejudice, racism and discrimination
Unknown	Boost English language teaching
Unknown	Back the National Citizen Service
Unknown	Improve the quality of evidence and data about the types of barriers different groups face
Unknown	Grant asylum and support to refugees fleeing persecution
Unknown	Champion freedom of expression and tolerance
Unknown	Support a memorial recognising the contribution of the Windrush Generation
Unknown	People coming from the UK will only be able to access unemployment, housing and child benefit after five years
Unknown	No longer allow people to claim benefit for children living overseas
Unknown	Require new arrivals to contribute to the funding of the NHS
Unknown	Double the budget of health tourism enforcement unit
Unknown	Ensure new GP and school places are delivered ahead of people moving into new housing developments
Unknown	Invest in a new Towns Fund that will target 100 towns
Unknown	Cut taxes for small local businesses, local music venues, pubs and cinemas
Unknown	Invest £500 million in new youth clubs and services
Unknown	A Safer Streets Fund will invest in preventative measures like CCTV or community wardens
Unknown	Work with local universities to do more for the education, health and prosperity of their local areas
Unknown	Establish a £150 Community Ownership Fund to encourage local takeovers of civic organisations or community assets that are under threat
Unknown	Set up a fan-led review of football governance
Unknown	Work with [football] fans and clubs towards introducing safe standing
Unknown	Help communities that want to create 'pocket parks' and regenerate derelict areas
Unknown	Support activities, traditions and events that bring communities together
Unknown	Extend the business rates relief of local and regional newspapers
Unknown	Invest £100 billion in additional infrastructure spending
Unknown	Spend £4 billion in flood defences
Unknown	Build Northern Powerhouse Rail
Unknown	Invest in the Midlands Rail Hub
Unknown	Invest in improving train lines to the South West and East Anglia
Unknown	Extend contactless pay-as-you-go ticketing to almost 200 more stations in the South East
Unknown	Give city regions the funding to upgrade their bus, tram and train services
Unknown	Create a simpler, more effective rail system
Unknown	Fund £28.8 billion in strategic and local roads
Unknown	Invest £1 billion in completing a fast-charging network [for vehicles]
Unknown	Phase out the sale of new conventional petrol and diesel cars
Unknown	Require that a minimum service operates during transport strikes
Unknown	Consider the Oakervee Review of HS2 and decide the optimal outcome
Unknown	Restore many of the Beeching [train] lines
Unknown	Invest in superbus networks
Unknown	Launch a pothole-filling programme
Unknown	Support commuter cycling routes
Unknown	Create a £350 million Cycling Infrastructure Fund
Unknown	Support a third runway at Heathrow
Unknown	Cut the time aircraft spend waiting to land
Unknown	Build on Britain's pioneering work in electric and low-carbon fight
Unknown	Bring full fibre and gigabit-capable broadband to every home and business across the UK by 2025
Unknown	Fund £5 billion to connect premises [to broadband] which are not commercially viable
Unknown	Local people will continue to have their say on council tax
Unknown	Devolve power to people and places across the UK
Unknown	Publish an English Devolution White Paper
Unknown	Drive greater levels of foreign investment into the UK
Unknown	Encourage a new market of long-term fixed rate mortgages
Unknown	Offer more homes to local families
Unknown	Maintain commitment to Right to Buy for council tenants
Unknown	Extend the Help to Buy scheme from 2021 to 2023
Unknown	Simplify shared ownership products [for housing]
Unknown	Continue with reforms to leasehold
Unknown	Bring in a Better Deal for Renters
Unknown	Publish a Social Housing White Paper
Unknown	Empower tenants and support the continued supply of social homes
Unknown	Renew the Affordable Homes Programme
Unknown	Support the delivery of thousands of affordable homes
Unknown	End the blight of rough sleeping
Unknown	Bring in a stamp duty surcharge on non-UK resident buyers
Unknown	Build at least 1,000,000 more homes
Unknown	Making the planning system simpler
Unknown	Support modern building methods of construction
Unknown	Amend planning rules so that infrastructure comes before people moving into new homes
Unknown	Ask every community to decide on its own design standards for new developments
Unknown	Implement and legislate for all the recommendations of the Hackitt Review
Unknown	Support high rise residential residents with the removal of unsafe cladding
Unknown	Help people who want to build their own homes
Unknown	Support the creation of environmentally friendly homes
Unknown	Encourage innovative design and technology to make housing more affordable
Unknown	Protect and enhance the Green Belt
Unknown	Fund a £3 billion National Skills Fund
Unknown	Reduce business rates
Unknown	Complete a first view of the business rate system
Unknown	Further reduce business rates for retail businesses, music venues, small cinemas and pubs
Unknown	Increase the Employment Allowance for small businesses
Unknown	Support start-ups and small businesses via government procurement, and pay on time
Unknown	Clamp down on late payment to small businesses
Unknown	Expand start-up loans
Unknown	Help SMEs to become exporters
Unknown	Achieve the right regulatory balance between supporting business and protecting workers
Unknown	Ensure that regulation is sensible and proportionate
Unknown	Encourage investment in physical building and equipment
Unknown	Help employers invest in skills
Unknown	Look at how to improve the working of the Apprenticeship Levy
Unknown	Continue the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme and the Enterprise Investment Scheme into the next Parliament
Unknown	Increase R&D tax credit rate to 13 per cent and review the definition of R&D
Unknown	Review and reform Entrepreneur's Relief
Unknown	Explore how we can better support the self-employed
Unknown	Tackle tax evasion and reduce opportunities for aggressive tax avoidance
Unknown	Create an anti-tax avoidance and evasion law with a maximum prison sentence of 14 years
Unknown	Create a single Anti-Tax Evasion unit in HMRC
Unknown	Consolidate existing [tax] anti-evasion and avoidance measures and powers
Unknown	Introduce new [tax] anti-evasion measures
Unknown	Implement the Digital Services Tax
Unknown	Redesign the tax system so that it boosts growth, wages and investment and limits arbitrary tax advantages for the wealthiest
Unknown	Strength the UK's corporate governance regime
Unknown	Reform insolvency rules and the audit regime
Unknown	Improve incentives to attack the problem of excessive executive pay and rewards for failure
Unknown	Reintroduce legislation to protect pension pots from being plundered by bosses
Unknown	Require significant numbers of new UK apprentices for all big new infrastructure projects
Unknown	Create a £3 billion National Skills Fund
Unknown	Invest almost £2 billion to upgrade the entire further education college estate
Unknown	Create 20 Institutes of Technology
Unknown	Ensure £500 million of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund is used to give disadvantaged people the skills they need
Unknown	Maintain and strengthen the UK's global position in higher education
Unknown	Consider the Augar Review recommendations on tuition fees
Unknown	Look at interest rates on [student] loan repayments
Unknown	Tackle grade inflation and low quality courses
Unknown	Improve the application and offer system for undergraduate students
Unknown	Strengthen academic freedom and free speech in universities
Unknown	Focus on raising standards in universities
Unknown	Strength universities and colleges' civic role
Unknown	Prioritise the principle of fairness in the workplace
Unknown	Create a single enforcement body and crack down on any employer abusing employment law
Unknown	Ensure workers have the right to request a more predictable contract
Unknown	Encourage flexible working
Unknown	Legislate to allow parents to take extended leave for neonatal care
Unknown	Make it easier for fathers to take paternity leave
Unknown	Fund more high-quality childcare before and after school and during the holidays
Unknown	Increase R&D spending, including in basic science research
Unknown	Fund a new agency for high-risk, high-payoff research
Unknown	Focus funding on areas where the UK can generate a commanding lead in the industries of the future
Unknown	Make the UK the leading global hub for life sciences
Unknown	Fund affordable and accessible clean energy using the Ayrton Fund
Unknown	Attract and kickstart private investment using R&D funding
Unknown	Support international collaboration and exchange
Unknown	Ensure UK teams can recruit the skill and talent they need from abroad
Unknown	Reform the science funding system
Unknown	Unlock long-term capital in pension funds to invest in and commercialise scientific discoveries
Unknown	Collaborate internationally and with the EU on scientific research
Unknown	Drive forward technologies of critical importance to the UK
Unknown	Invest in world-class computing and health data systems
Unknown	Use government procurement to support new ideas and new companies
Unknown	Fund £250 million to local libraries and museums
Unknown	Maintain support for creative sector tax reliefs
Unknown	Maintain support for free entry to the UK's national museums
Unknown	Free farmers from the Common Agricultural Policy and move to a system based on 'public money for public goods'
Unknown	Guarantee the current annual budget to farmers
Unknown	Require that farmers farm in a way that protects and enhances our natural environment
Unknown	Encourage the public sector to 'Buy British'
Unknown	Increase the annual quota for the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme
Unknown	Leave the Common Fisheries Policy
Unknown	Maintain funding for fisheries across the UK's nations
Unknown	Legislate a requirement to fish sustainability and to achieve the maximum sustainable yield for each stock
Unknown	Roll out gigabit broadband across the country by 2025 and provide greater mobile coverage
Unknown	Tackle rural crime
Unknown	Cement Opportunity Areas programme
Unknown	Invest in the bus network
Unknown	Want people to buy British
Unknown	Lead the world in the quality of our food, agriculture and land management
Unknown	Require that farmers and fishermen act as stewards of the natural world
Unknown	Set up Office For Environmental Protection
Unknown	Introduce environmental legal targets including for air quality
Unknown	Fund £640 million Nature for Climate Fund
Unknown	Create a Great Northumberland Forest
Unknown	Reach an additional 75,000 acres of trees a year by the end of the next Parliament
Unknown	Restore peatland
Unknown	Create new National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Unknown	Make the coast to coast path across the North a National Trail
Unknown	Lead the world in tackling plastics pollution
Unknown	Introduce a levy to increase the proportion of recyclable plastics in packaging
Unknown	Ban the export of plastic waste to non-OECD countries
Unknown	Crack down on the waste and carelessness that destroys our natural environment and kills marine life
Unknown	Increase penalties for fly-tipping
Unknown	Make those on community sentences clean up their parks and streets
Unknown	Introduce a deposit return scheme to incentivise people to recycle plastic and glass
Unknown	Make no changes to the Hunting Act
Unknown	Use the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to bind together the whole of the UK, tackling inequality and deprivation
Unknown	The UK Shared Prosperity Fund will match, at a minimum, the size of the EU Structural Funds in each nation
Unknown	Ensure that UK Government and institutions realise the benefits of four nations working together as one United Kingdom
Unknown	Ensure new freeports benefit people in each of the four nations
Unknown	Remain committed to 1998 Belfast Agreement and its successor agreements
Unknown	Re-establish the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly
Unknown	Ensure Northern Ireland's businesses enjoy unfettered access to the rest of the UK
Unknown	Maintain and strengthen the integrity and smooth operation of the UK's internal market
Unknown	Support the Northern Ireland Executive to improve infrastructure, enterprise and tourism, reduce public sector dependence and make the most of new City Deals
Unknown	Devolve responsibility for corporation tax
Unknown	Tackle the threat from terrorism and the scourge of paramilitarism
Unknown	Seek better ways of dealing with legacy issues that provide better outcomes for victims and survivors
Unknown	Give veterans the protections they deserve
Unknown	Review alcohol duty to ensure that the tax system supports British drink producers
Unknown	Support a deal to transform the oil and gas sector as UK moves to Net Zero economy
Unknown	Ensure that Wales get a fare deal as part of Brexit
Unknown	Champion Welsh exports and Wales' presence on the global stage
Unknown	Negotiate a Marches Growth Deal to focus on England/Wales border infrastructure
Unknown	Upgrade the A55
Unknown	Deliver the M4 relief road
Unknown	Fund the building of the West Wales Parkway Station
Unknown	Back Welsh car manufacturing
Unknown	Support Welsh institutions
Unknown	Support the ambition for one million Welsh speakers by 2050
Unknown	Get rid of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act
Unknown	Update Parliamentary boundaries
Unknown	Support the First Past the Post system
Unknown	Introduce identification to vote at polling stations
Unknown	Introduce measures to prevent foreign interference in elections
Unknown	Make it easier for British expats to vote
Unknown	Maintain the voting age at 18
Unknown	Ensure no one is put off from engaging in politics or standing in an election by threats, harassment or abuse
Unknown	Repeal section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2014
Unknown	Not proceed with second stage of the Leveson Inquiry
Unknown	Ensure redundancy payments can be reclaimed when high-paid public servants move between jobs
Unknown	Improve the use of data, data science and evidence in the process of government
Unknown	Craft legislation and standards that maintain high standards but which work best for the UK
Unknown	Look at the relationship between Government, Parliament and the courts
Unknown	Look at the functioning of the Royal Prerogative
Unknown	Look at the role of the House of Lords
Unknown	Look at access to justice for ordinary people
Unknown	Update the Human Rights Act to ensure there is a proper balance between the rights of individuals, national security and government
Unknown	Set up a Constitution, Democracy & Rights Commission to examine the constitution
Unknown	Continue to be an outward-looking country that is a champion of collective security, the rule of law, human rights, free trade, anti-corruption efforts and a rule-based international system
Unknown	Bolster alliances and institutions that help protect the UK's influence and keep the UK safe
Unknown	Open new markets and support free trade growth
Unknown	Build on track record of delivering major international sporting events
Unknown	Back a potential UK and Ireland bid for the 2030 FIFA World Cup
Unknown	Reinvigorate relationships with Europe
Unknown	Work with our cultural institutions like the BBC and British Council to expand our influence and project our values
Unknown	Stand up to foreign countries that threaten the stability of Europe, or commit state-sanctioned murder on British soil
Unknown	Introduce legislation to tackle legal claims that undermine the Armed Forces
Unknown	Further incorporate the Armed Forces Covenant into law
Unknown	Acknowledge and commemorate the contribution of diaspora communities in previous armed conflicts
Unknown	Recognise the contribution in the present day of [forces] from beyond these shores
Unknown	Reduce National Insurance contributions for employers if they employ ex-Service personnel
Unknown	Offer wraparound childcare for Forces families
Unknown	Introduce a Veterans' Railcard
Unknown	Offer a guaranteed job interview for veterans for any public service role they apply for
Unknown	Continue to exceed the NATO target of spending 2 per cent of GDP on defence
Unknown	Increase the NATO budget by 0.5 per cent above inflation every year
Unknown	Modernise the equipment and improve the capability of the Armed Forces and intelligence agencies
Unknown	Invest in training and equipping the Armed Forces
Unknown	Maintain the Trident nuclear deterrent
Unknown	Invest more in cybersecurity
Unknown	Set up the UK's first Space Command
Unknown	Stand against terrorism and extremism
Unknown	Invest in global defence programmes
Unknown	Invest in Type 31 frigates in British shipyards
Unknown	Invest in new armoured vehicles made in Britain
Unknown	Further develop an independent Magnitsky-style sanctions regime to tackle human rights abusers
Unknown	Stand up for the right for every girl in the world to have 12 years of education
Unknown	Continue the campaign to promote international media freedom
Unknown	Continue the campaign to eradicate human trafficking and modern slavery
Unknown	Support marginalised communities in the developing world
Unknown	Host the UK government's first ever LGBT conference
Unknown	Protect those persecuted for their faith
Unknown	Implement the Truro Review recommendations
Unknown	Maintain the commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of GNI on development
Unknown	Do more to help countries receiving aid become self-sufficient
Unknown	End the preventable deaths of mothers, new-born babies and children by 2030
Unknown	Lead the way in eradicating Ebola and malaria
Unknown	Support the construction of the UK Holocaust Memorial
Unknown	Introduce tougher sentences for animal cruelty
Unknown	Crack down on the illegal smuggling of dogs and puppies
Unknown	Bring in new laws on animal sentience
Unknown	End excessively long journeys for slaughtering and fattening
Unknown	Bring the ivory ban into force
Unknown	Extent the ivory ban to cover other ivory-bearing species
Unknown	Ban imports from trophy hunting of endangered species
Unknown	Ban keeping primates as pets
Unknown	Bring forward cat microchipping
Unknown	Deliver on the target of Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
Unknown	Ask global partners to match the UK's ambition [of greenhouse gas emissions]
Unknown	Set up new international partnerships to tackle deforestation, protect landscapes and wildlife corridors
Unknown	Establish a £500 million Blue Planet Fund to help protect oceans from pollution, warming sea temperatures and overfishing
Unknown	Extend the Blue Belt programme to preserve the maritime environment
Unknown	Lead diplomatic efforts to protect 30 per cent of the world's oceans by 2030
Unknown	Invest in decarbonisation schemes
Unknown	Fund £4 billion in new flood defences
Unknown	Invest in electric vehicle infrastructure including a national plug-in network and gigafactory
Unknown	Invest in clean energy
Unknown	Deliver 2 million jobs in clean growth
Unknown	Offshore wind industry will reach 40GW by 2030
Unknown	Enable new floating wind farms
Unknown	Invest £800 million to build a carbon capture storage cluster by the mid-2020s
Unknown	Inbest £500 million to help energy-intensive industries to move to low-carbon techniques
Unknown	Support gas for hydrogen production
Unknown	Support nuclear energy, including fusion
Unknown	Do not support fracking unless the science shows that it can be done safely
Unknown	Invest £9.2 billion in the energy efficiency of homes, schools and hospitals
Unknown	Support clean transport to ensure clean air
Unknown	Set new laws on air quality
Unknown	Consult on the earliest date by which we can phase out the sale of new conventional petrol and diesel cars
Unknown	Aim for 80 per cent of UK trade covered by free trade agreements within the next three years
Unknown	Forge stronger links with the Commonwealth
Unknown	Use export finance to increase UK business' access to emerging markets
Unknown	Open up trade in services
Unknown	Create up to 10 freeports around the UK
Unknown	Promote British business and UK exports
Unknown	Dismantle barriers to trade
Unknown	Retake our seat in the World Trade Organisation
Unknown	When negotiating trade talks, 6 specific principles will be followed

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Conservative manifesto 2019 pledges

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