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General Election manifestos 2019
What the main political parties say in relation to Gypsies, Roma and Travellershttps://travellermovement.org.uk/
Accommodation
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Tackle unauthorised Traveller Deliver a new social housebuilding Build at least 100,000 homes for
camps. Propose giving the police programme of more than a million social rent each year and ensure
new powers to arrest and seize homes over a decade; that total housebuilding increases
the property and vehicles of Propose to establish a new duty to 300,000 each year;
trespassers who set up on councils to plan and build these Allow local authorities to increase
unauthorised encampments, in homes in their area, and fund council tax by up to 500 per cent
order to protect communities; them to do so, with backing from where homes are being bought as
Make intentional trespass a national government; second homes;
criminal offence, and will also give Scrap the current bogus definition Improve protections against rogue
councils greater powers within the of ‘affordable’ and replace with a landlords through mandatory
planning system; definition linked to local incomes; licensing;
Reform shared ownership, making Make available 8,000 additional Introduce a ‘somewhere safe to
it fairer and more transparent; homes for people with a history of stay’ legal duty to ensure that
Extend the Help to Buy scheme rough sleeping; everyone who is at risk of sleeping
from 2021 to 2023; Repeal the Vagrancy Act and rough is provided with emergency
Maintain a commitment to a Right amend antisocial behaviour accommodation and an
to Buy for all council tenants. legislation; assessment of their needs;
Increase number of homes being End rough sleeping within five Increase Local Housing Allowance
built. years, with a national plan driven in line with average rents in an
by a prime minister-led taskforce. area.
Brexit
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Get Brexit Done. Draft a new EU exit deal and put Stop Brexit.
to a People’s Vote.https://travellermovement.org.uk/
Democracy and voter rights
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Get rid of the Fixed Term Repeal the Fixed-term Parliaments Introduce proportional
Parliaments Act; Act 2011; representation through the Single
Introduce identification to vote at Scrap voter identification bill; Transferable Vote for electing
polling stations; Reduce the voting age to 16; MPs, and local councillors in
Introduce measures to prevent any Address misconduct and the England;
foreign interference in elections; unresolved failures of corporate Scrap voter identification bill;
Repeal section 40 of the Crime governance raised by the second Give 16- and 17-year olds the right
and Courts Act 2014, which seeks stage of the Leveson Inquiry; to vote in elections and
to coerce the press; Consider an inquiry into ‘fake referendums;
Do not proceed with the second news’; Establish a legal duty on local
stage of the Leveson Inquiry. Strengthen Ofcom’s powers; authorities to inform citizens of
Repeal the Lobbying Act 2014 and how to register to vote;
overhaul the rules that govern Bring into force Section 106 of the
corporate lobbying. Equality Act 2010, requiring
political parties to publish
candidate diversity data;
Introduce a Leveson-compliant
regulator to be given oversight of
both privacy and quality, diversity
and choice in both print and online
media;
Proceed with Part Two of the
Leveson Inquiry.https://travellermovement.org.uk/
Domestic Abuse
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Pass the Domestic Abuse Bill; Reintroduce a Domestic Abuse Legislate for a statutory definition
Increase support for refuges and Bill; of domestic abuse that includes its
community support for victims of Ratify both the Istanbul effects on children;
rape and sexual abuse; Convention on preventing Ratify and bring into law the
Pass and implement a Victims’ domestic abuse and the ILO Istanbul Convention;
Law that guarantees victims’ rights Convention on Violence and Expand the number of refuges and
and support; Harassment at work; rape crisis centres to meet
Pilot integrated domestic abuse Appoint a Commissioner for demand;
courts that address criminal and Violence against Women and Ensure sustainable grant-funding
family matters in parallel. Girls; for specialist independent support
Establish a National Refuge Fund; services;
Improve the safety of the family Give local authorities the duty and
court system for domestic violence funding to provide accommodation
victims and prohibit their cross- and support for survivors of abuse;
examination by their abuser; Establish a national rape crisis
Introduce 10 days of paid leave for helpline;
survivors of domestic abuse; Ensure access to special
Ensure women’s refuges receive measures for survivors in all courts
the long-term sustainable funding and preventing direct cross-
they need; examination of survivors by their
Misogyny and violence against abusers.
women and girls will become hate
crimes.
Education & childcare
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
30+ hours free childcare; 30+ hours free childcare; 35 hours free childcare;
Invest an additional £4.5 billion Invest £1 billion a year in
pounds to all 2-4 year-olds; Children’s Centres;https://travellermovement.org.uk/
A new £1 billion fund to help Reintroduce Sure Start Centres; Scrap mandatory SATs;
create more high quality, create a National Education Reverse cuts to school funding,
affordable childcare; Service; employing an extra 20,000
Raise teachers’ starting salaries to Introduce free school meals for all schoolteachers;
£30,000; primary age children; Replace Ofsted with a new HM
Expand ‘alternative provision’ Scrap Key Stage 1 and 2 SATs; Inspector of Schools;
schools; Scrap and replace Ofsted; Reinstate maintenance grants for
Back heads and teachers on Scrap Third level tuition fees and the poorest students;
discipline; reinstate the grant. Establish a review of higher
Back heads to use exclusions; education finance.
help teachers tackle bullying;
£400 million for 16-19 education.
Health and mental health
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
50,000 more nurses in 5 years; Increase expenditure across the £7 billion a year ring-fenced
Students nurses will receive a health sector by an average 4.3% funding for the NHS and social
£5,000-£8,000 annual a year; care;
maintenance grant every year; Introduce a training bursary for Transform mental health by
Increase the NHS surcharge paid nurses, midwives and allied health treating it with the same urgency
by those from overseas; professionals; as physical health;
Wll treat mental health with the Provide an additional £1.6 billion a Publish a National Wellbeing
same urgency as physical health; year to ensure new standards for Strategy.
Legislate so that patients suffering mental health are enshrined in the
from mental health conditions NHS constitution;
have greater control over their Implement in full the
treatment. recommendations set out in the
independent review of the Mental
Health Act;https://travellermovement.org.uk/
Double the annual spend on
children and adolescent mental
health services;
Free annual NHS dental check-
ups;
Guarantee universal healthcare to
all.
Human Rights, Discrimination and Equality
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Update the Human Rights Act and Develop a comprehensive Gypsy, Maintain freedom of movement for
administrative law and set up a Roma and Traveller community EU nationals;
Constitution, Democracy & Rights equality strategy to tackle Maintain the Human Rights Act
Commission that will examine persistent inequalities, in particular and the European Convention on
these and other issues in depth; within housing, education and Human Rights;
Review EU legislation and criminal justice; Scrap the Hostile Environment;
regulations; End racism and discrimination End indefinite detention and take
End the role of the European against Gypsy, Roma and powers away from the Home
Court of Justice; Traveller communities; Office;
End Freedom of Movement for EU Create a new Department for Make hate crimes aggravated
nationals. Women and Equalities; offences.
Equality audit all policies before,
during and after implementation;
Enhance the powers and functions
of the Equality and Human Rights
Commission;
Keep the Human Rights Act and
Convention on Human Rights;
End the Hostile Environment;https://travellermovement.org.uk/
Grant EU nationals the automatic
right to continue living and working
in the UK.
Prisons, Probations and Justice
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Add 10,000 more prison places, Tackle the disproportionate levels Reduce the overrepresentation of
with £2.75 billion already of BAME children in custody; people from BAME backgrounds
committed to refurbishing and Review the youth custody estate, throughout the criminal justice
creating modern prisons; strengthen youth courts and build system;
Toughen community sentences; on the Lammy Review; Invest £500 million to restore
Conduct a root-and-branch review Restore all early legal aid advice, Legal Aid;
of the parole system; including for housing, social Adopt a public health approach to
Introduce tougher sentencing for security, family and immigration serious violence, including youth
the worst offenders; cases; violence:
Maintain the ban on prisoners Review the Prevent programme; Invest £1 billion to restore
voting from jail; Set new standards for community community policing, enough for
Invest £500 million in youth sentences and introduce a two new police officers in every
services for young people; presumption against prison ward.
Make it easier for police officers to sentences of six months or less for Provide a £500m ring-fenced
stop and search those convicted of non-violent and non-sexual youth services;
knife crime. offences; End the disproportionate use of
Invest in proven alternatives to Stop and Search;
custody, including women’s Introduce a presumption against
centres, expand problem-solving short prison sentences;
courts and plug the funding gap in Increase the use of tough
the female offender strategy; community sentences and
Legal aid for inquests into deaths restorative justice where
in state custody; appropriate;
Recruit hundreds of new Establish a Women’s Justice
community lawyers; Board and provide specialist
training for all staff in contact withhttps://travellermovement.org.uk/
Build an expanded network of law women in the criminal justice
centres; system.
Create and fund a National Youth
Service.
Small businesses
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Cut the burden of tax on business Tackle late payments that leave Replace Business Rates in
by reducing business rates; small businesses waiting months England with a Commercial
Further reduce taxes for small to be paid, including banning late Landowner Levy;
retail businesses and for local payers from public procurement; Create a new ‘start-up allowance’
music venues, pubs and cinemas; Reverse cuts to corporation tax to help those starting a new
New £3 billion National Skills while keeping rates lower than in business with their living costs in
Fund; support start-ups and small 2010; the crucial first weeks of their
businesses via government Ensure no quarterly reporting for business;
procurement; businesses below the VAT Prioritise small and medium-sized
Launch a review to explore how threshold; businesses in the rollout of hyper-
we can better support the self- Self-employed people will benefit fast broadband;
employed. from a broad range of policies, Expand the rights and benefits
from free childcare and full-fibre available to those in insecure
broadband to face-to-face lending forms of employment, such as
and business support through offering parental leave and pay to
Labour’s Post Bank the self-employed.
Social care
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
£1 billion extra of funding every Build a National Care Service; Reform the Health and Social
year for more social care staff and Repeal the Health and Social Care Care Act as recommended by the
better infrastructure, technology Act; NHS;
and facilities.https://travellermovement.org.uk/
Launch a wholesale review of the Additional funding for social care
care system; through taxation;
Rebuild early intervention services Establish a cross-party health and
Replace the Troubled Families social care convention.
programme with a Stronger
Families programme, refocused on
long-term support to reduce the
risk of children going into care;
Protect and build on Staying Put
for over-18s in care and the
Adoption Support Fund.
Taxes, contracts and wages
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Will not raise the rates of income Freeze National Insurance and 1p rise on the basic, higher and
tax, National Insurance or VAT; income tax rates for everyone additional rates of Income Tax;
Increase in the National Living earning under £80,000 p.a; Restore Corporation Tax to 20 per
Wage to two thirds of average Reverse cuts to corporation tax; cent;
earnings, currently forecast at Establish a Ministry for Consult on how to set a genuine
£10.50 an hour; Employment Rights; Living Wage across all sectors;
Increase the Employment Introduce Real Living Wage of at Establish a powerful new Worker
Allowance for small businesses. least £10 per hour for all workers; Protection Enforcement Authority;
End zero-hours contracts and Setting a 20 per cent higher
strengthen trade union rights; minimum wage for people on zero-
No increases in VAT; hour contracts;
Greater protections for the self-
employed.https://travellermovement.org.uk/
Giving a right to request a fixed-
hours contract after 12 months for
‘zero hours’;
Strengthen the ability of unions to
represent workers effectively.
Welfare and Universal credit
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Continue the roll-out of Universal Scrap Universal Credit; Reform Universal Credit to be
Credit; Scrap the benefit cap and the two more supportive of the self-
End the benefit freeze; child limit; employed;
Publish a National Strategy for Introduce a right to food; Establish a legal right to food;
Disabled People before the end of Implement an emergency package Introduce a principle of universal
2020. of reforms to mitigate some of the access to basic services;
worst features of UC while Invest £6 billion per year to make
developing a replacement system; the benefits system work for
Pay childcare costs up front so people who need it;
that parents aren’t forced to turn Reduce the wait for the first
down work or get into debt to pay benefits payment from five weeks
for childcare; to five days.
Protect women in abusive
relationships by splitting payments
and paying the child element to
the primary carer;
End the digital barrier and offer
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