Conservative Party manifesto

We are committed to supporting a high-quality and sustainable social care system, building on our additional investment of up to £8.6 billion over the last two years. At the next Spending Review, we will give local authorities a multi-year funding settlement to support social care and will take forward the reforms in our ‘People at the Heart of Care’ White Paper. (Pg. 40)

We will attract and retain a high-quality care workforce, make reforms to shape the market for older people’s housing and support unpaid carers. We will implement our planned reforms to cap social care costs from October 2025. (Pg. 40)

By the end of the next Parliament, there will be 92,000 more nurses and 28,000 more doctors in the NHS than in 2023. (Pg. 40)

The NHS Long-Term Workforce Plan will help shift care away from hospitals and into local communities. To support this, we will:

• Expand Pharmacy First, including for menopause support, contraception and treatment for chest infections, freeing up 20 million GP appointments a year.
• Build or modernise 250 GP surgeries, focused on areas of new housing growth.
• Build 50 more Community Diagnostic Centres, including in underserved areas, resulting in an additional 2.5 million checks a year. (Pg. 40)

We will invest in more and better facilities, continuing to deliver 40 new hospitals by 2030 and investing proportionately more in out-of-hospital services over time. (Pg. 40)

Our Dental Recovery Plan will unlock 2.5 million more NHS dental appointments. (Pg. 40)

We will further improve access to NHS services across England by training more staff in rural and coastal areas. (Pg. 40)

We will protect and promote patients’ right to choose the NHS service that is right for them. (Pg. 41)

We will support our world-leading life sciences sector, embracing the opportunities provided by Brexit to pursue nimble and agile regulation, supported by a well-equipped MHRA. (Pg. 41)

We will invest £3.4 billion in new technology to transform the NHS for staff and for patients. The NHS Productivity Plan will see NHS productivity grow by 1.9% a year from 2025-26 – unlocking £35 billion of cumulative savings by the end of the decade. We will:

• Make the NHS App the single front door for NHS services. Patients will use the App to access their medical records, order prescriptions, book vaccine appointments, access a digital red book and manage their hospital appointments.
• Use AI to free up doctors’ and nurses’ time for frontline patient care.
• Replace tens of thousands of outdated computers, slashing the 13 million hours in doctors’ and nurses’ time lost to IT issues every year and digitise NHS processes through the Federated Data Platform.
• Fund technology to help clinicians read MRI and CT scans more quickly and accurately, speeding up results for 130,000 patients every year.
• Create new incentives for improved performance, rewarding the best performing providers of care. (Pg. 41)

We will cut waste and bureaucracy in the NHS, reducing the number of managers by 5,500, releasing £550 million for frontline services and simplifying and streamlining oversight and accountability. (Pg. 41)

We will publish and implement a Major Conditions Strategy to prevent these conditions from occurring and ensure those living with them receive the best possible care. (Pg. 41)

To support women further, we will:

• Bring forward a comprehensive national strategy for maternity care as recommended by the APPG on Birth Trauma’s inquiry.
• Deliver additional funding for maternal safety and improve access to mental health services for new mums, improve perinatal pelvic health services to prevent and support women with birth injuries and postnatal appointments dedicated to checking mums, not just their babies.
• Expand women’s health hubs so that every integrated care system has at least one hub up and running.
• Roll out fracture liaison services to every region, reaching 100% coverage by 2030 as osteoporosis disproportionately impacts women.
• Support continued research into disparities in maternity care through the National Institute for Health and Care Research. (Pg. 42)

We will introduce a new licensing scheme and age limits for non-surgical cosmetic procedures, ensuring services are administered by suitably qualified and trained professionals. (Pg. 42)

We will bring forward our landmark Tobacco and Vapes Bill in our first King’s Speech. (Pg. 41)

We are implementing the HIV Action Plan, which will end new HIV transmissions by 2030. (Pg. 41)

Mental health should have parity of esteem with physical health. To support children, young people and adults with their mental health, we will:

• Expand coverage of Mental Health Support Teams from 50% to 100% of schools and colleges in England by 2030.
• Open early support hubs for those aged 11-25 in every local community by 2030.
• Increase the planned expansion of NHS Talking Therapies by 50%, supporting people with anxiety, stress and depression.
• Boost the capacity of Individual Placement and Support for Severe Mental Illness by 140,000 places.
• Pass a new law to provide better treatment and support for severe mental health needs in the first session of the next Parliament. (Pg. 42)

We have already delivered Family Hubs in over 75 local authorities. We will go further to deliver a Family Hub in every local authority in England. (Pg. 18)

We will improve the experiences of children in social care, because every child deserves to live in a safe and loving home. (Pg. 18)

We will create more places in children’s homes while prioritising keeping families together where that’s best for the child through our Kinship Care Strategy and helping children grow up in loving adoptive families where that is a better option. (Pg. 18)

We will also support those leaving care with housing, education and employment, in addition to expanding befriending and mentoring programmes for care leavers. (Pg. 18)

End the unfairness in Child Benefit by moving to a household system, so families don’t start losing Child Benefit until their combined income reaches £120,000 – saving the average family which benefits £1,500. (Pg. 4)

Give young people the skills and opportunities they deserve by introducing mandatory National Service for all school leavers at 18, with the choice between a competitive placement in the military or civic service roles. (Pg. 4)

Give working parents 30 hours of free childcare a week from when their child is nine months old to when they start school, saving eligible families an average of £6,900 per year. (Pg. 4)

Fund 100,000 high-quality apprenticeships for young people, paid for by curbing the number of poor-quality university degrees that leave young people worse off. (Pg. 4)

Transform 16-19 education by introducing the Advanced British Standard, enabling young people to receive a broader education and removing the artificial divide between academic and technical learning. (Pg. 4)

We will reinvent National Service for this century to give young people valuable life skills and build a stronger national culture. National Service will be compulsory, so it becomes a rite of passage for every 18-year-old, but young people will be given a choice, between: 

• Civic service. The equivalent of one weekend a month (25 days a year) volunteering in the community, alongside work or study, for a year. Roles could include special constable, NHS responder or RNLI volunteer.
• Military service. A year-long full-time placement in the armed forces or cyber defence. This placement will be competitive and paid, so our armed forces recruit and train the brightest and the best. (Pg. 27)

We will transform education for children with special educational needs, ending the postcode lottery of support by delivering 60,000 more school places and a further 15 new free schools for children with special educational needs. (Pg. 27)

Deliver 1.6 million well-designed homes in the right places while protecting our countryside, permanently abolish Stamp Duty for homes up to £425,000 for first time buyers and introduce a new Help to Buy scheme. (Pg. 4)

Reduce the cost of infrastructure by allowing quicker changes to consented projects. (Pg. 9) 

Ensure National Policy Statements are regularly updated. (Pg. 9)

Focus the role of statutory consultees in the planning system on improving projects in line with clearer objectives, rather than piecemeal requirements that add delays. (Pg. 9)

End frivolous legal challenges that frustrate infrastructure delivery by amending the law so judicial reviews that don’t have merit do not waste court time. (Pg. 9)

We will deliver 1.6 million homes in England in the next Parliament by:

• Abolishing the legacy EU ‘nutrient neutrality’ rules to immediately unlock the building of 100,000 new homes with local consent, with developers required in law to pay a one-off mitigation fee so there is no net additional pollution.
• Delivering a record number of homes each year on brownfield land in urban areas. We will do this by providing a fast-track route through the planning system for new homes on previously developed land in the 20 largest cities. Strong design codes will ensure this enables the gentle densification of urban areas, with new family homes and mansion-blocks on tree-lined streets built in the local character. We will look at extending ‘full expensing’ to the delivery of brownfield housing.
• Supporting local and smaller builders by requiring councils to set land aside for them and lifting Section 106 burdens on more smaller sites, while ruling out Labour’s proposed ‘community right to appeal’ which would bring the planning system to its knees.
• Making sure local authorities use the new Infrastructure Levy to deliver the GP surgeries, roads and other local infrastructure needed to support homes. We will not allow these funds to be spent on community projects that bear no relation to support for new homes.
• Renewing the Affordable Homes Programme that will deliver homes of all tenures and focus on regenerating and improving housing estates. 
• Retaining our cast-iron commitment to protect the Green Belt from uncontrolled development, while ensuring more homes get built where it makes sense, like in inner cities. Our national planning protections mean there is never any top-down requirement for councils to remove Green Belt protection and these will remain in place. (Pg.52)

We will legislate for new ‘Local Connection’ and ‘UK Connection’ tests for social housing in England, to ensure this valuable but limited resource is allocated fairly. 

We will implement a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ expectation of social housing landlords for anti-social behaviour. They will be expected to evict tenants whose behaviour is disruptive to neighbours and the local community. (Pg. 53)

We will complete the process of leasehold reform, to improve the lives of over four million leaseholders. We will cap ground rents at £250, reducing them to peppercorn over time. (Pg. 53)

We will pass a Renters Reform Bill that will deliver fairness in the rental market for landlords and renters alike. (Pg. 53)

We will deliver the court reforms necessary to fully abolish Section 21 and strengthen other grounds for landlords to evict private tenants guilty of anti-social behaviour. (Pg. 53)

We will continue with our plans to end rough sleeping and prevent people from ending up on the streets in the first place, after making significant progress over the last few years. (Pg. 53)

We will deliver our commitments under the Local Authority Housing Fund and review the quality of temporary accommodation. (Pg. 53)

After delivering landmark new laws that freed leaseholders from cladding bills following on from the awful tragedy of Grenfell Tower, we will continue our support for leaseholders affected by historic building safety problems by requiring the continuation of developer-funded remediation programmes for mid- and high-rise buildings. (Pg. 53)

We will ensure councils have the powers they need to manage the uncontrolled growth of holiday lets, which can cause nuisance to local residents and a hollowing out of communities. (Pg. 53)

We will support those who want to build or commission their own home by making the planning process simpler, while also supporting more community housing schemes. (Pg. 54)

We will encourage the building of different forms of housing, particularly housing for older people. (Pg. 54)

Building on our new powers for the police, we will further speed up the use and enforcement of powers to remove illegal traveller sites, while giving councils greater planning powers to prevent unauthorised development by travellers. (Pg. 54)

We will ensure rural exception sites support local people into home ownership and create a dedicated taskforce in Homes England to deliver on the mission set out in their Rural Housing Statement to invest in regeneration and building high quality homes. (Pg. 66)

We will ensure councils have the powers they need to manage the uncontrolled growth of holiday lets. (Pg. 66)

Introduce a legal cap on migration to guarantee that numbers will fall every year, so public services are protected while bringing in the skills our businesses and NHS needs. (Pg. 4)

Work with other countries to rewrite asylum treaties to make them fit for the challenges we face. (Pg. 4)

We will run a relentless, continual process of permanently removing illegal migrants to Rwanda with a regular rhythm of flights every month, starting this July, until the boats are stopped. If we are forced to choose between our security and the jurisdiction of a foreign court, including the ECtHR, we will always choose our security. (Pg. 36)

We will stop illegal migrants from bringing spurious challenges to block their removal by bringing our Illegal Migration Act into force and clearing the asylum backlog, with all claims processed in six months and the use of hotels ended. (Pg. 36)

Reform asylum rules, holding an international summit and working with other countries to reform international laws to make them fit for an age of mass migration. We will restrict visa access from countries that don’t work with us on our national priorities, like illegal migration. (Pg. 36)

With control of our borders, we can do more to help refugees fleeing persecution. In addition to maintaining visa schemes for people fleeing Hong Kong, Ukraine and our Afghan settlement schemes, we will give parliament control of how many places we offer on safe and legal routes to support those in genuine need from around the world, with a cap based on the capacity of local areas. (Pg. 36)

We will introduce a binding, legal cap on migration, set on work and family visas so public services are protected whilst we bring the skills our businesses and the NHS needs. (Pg. 37)

Our cap will be set at a level that explicitly takes into account the costs and the benefits of migration. (Pg. 37)

The cap will fall every year of the next Parliament and cannot be breached. (Pg. 37)

We will give parliament an annual vote on the level of the cap so that the British people can have confidence that immigration numbers will be controlled. (Pg. 37)

Unlike Labour, we won’t allow any form of free movement to return. (Pg. 37)

We will maintain the National Living Wage in each year of the next Parliament at two-thirds of median earnings. (Pg. 15)

Continue to directly invest in communities across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, protect the UK’s internal market and the integrity of our United Kingdom. (Pg. 4)

In the next Parliament, continue to meet fiscal rules of having public sector net debt falling and for public sector net borrowing to be below 3 per cent of GDP in the fifth year of the forecast. (Pg. 6)

Continue investing over £1.5 billion in large-scale compute clusters, assembling the raw processing power so we can take advantage of the potential of AI and support research into its safe and responsible use. (Pg. 9)

Providing 30 more towns with an endowment fund for local people to change their town's future. (Pg. 56)

Extending the Community Ownership Fund to help more communities across the UK take control of vital community assets like pubs, music venues, libraries, green spaces, leisure centres and more. (Pg. 56)

Extend the UK Shared Prosperity Fund for three years at the next Spending Review, before using this funding to support UK wide National Service. (Pg. 56)

Create more Freeports and Business Rates Retention zones. (Pg. 56)

Continue backing Investment Zones across the country, giving areas £160 million to catalyse local growth and investment. (Pg. 56)

Give our high streets a new lease of life and restore pride in place. We will change planning laws to support places to bring back local market days and regenerate defunct shopping centres. We will continue to make industry pay for removing chewing-gum from streets and raise the fines utility firms must pay when they create ‘street scars’ by not properly restoring roads and pavements after their works are completed. We will make fly tipping an offence that carries penalty points against your driving licence. (Pg. 56)

We will invest in new technology to achieve our ambitious broadband targets for hard-to-reach areas. (Pg. 66)

Cut the cost of net zero for consumers by taking a more pragmatic approach, guaranteeing no new green levies or charges while accelerating the rollout of renewables. (Pg. 4)

We will ensure democratic consent for onshore wind, striking the right balance between energy security and the views of their local communities. Our updated National Planning Policy Framework seeks to ensure local areas that host onshore wind directly benefit, including potentially through energy bill discounts. (Pg. 50)

Ruling out creating further green levies, and alongside our commitment not to introduce road pricing schemes. (Pg. 50)

Energy bills are falling, down 63 per cent since the peak. We will take further action to ensure they are low as possible for families, by introducing more efficient local markets for electricity. (Pg. 50)

Launch a Seaside Heritage Fund to support enhancements to our seaside heritage, preserving and restoring our coastal assets. (Pg. 56)

Introduce reforms to outdated EU red tape to better protect nature while enabling the building of new homes, new prisons and new energy schemes. Along with the reforms to the EU’s bureaucratic environmental impact assessment regime that we have already started, these changes will speed up local and national infrastructure planning systems. (Pg. 9)

Ensure any requirements to offset the impact of new infrastructure and homes on an area are proportionate, without compromising environmental outcomes. (Pg. 9)

Consult UK overseas territories on opportunities to expand the Blue Belt programme further. (Pg. 66)

Ratify the Global Oceans Treaty early in the next Parliament. (Pg. 66)

Improve the accountability of Natural England and the Environment Agency and give them clearer objectives to focus on. (Pg. 66)

We remain committed to banning the import of hunting trophies and tackling puppy smuggling and livestock worrying. (Pg. 66)

Maintaining current levels of capital funding for flood defences. (Pg. 66)

Working with the regulator to further hold companies to account, including banning executive bonuses if a company has committed a serious criminal breach. This will build on our legislation for unlimited fines. (Pg. 67)

Using fines from water companies to invest in river restoration projects, including linking up thriving habitats to multiply the benefits for wildlife and water quality. This will create a river recovery network, modelled on our nature recovery network, and create new destinations for people to enjoy across England. (Pg. 67)

Reform the ‘Price Review’ regulatory process for water companies. This will consider how we move to a more localised catchment-based and outcome-focussed approach, that better utilises nature-based solutions and further strengthens sanctions for water companies that fail to deliver for the public, coasts and rivers. (Pg. 67)

Cut red tape that holds back the planting of trees in the planning system. This will identify particularly suitable areas for tree planting where processes and permits will be streamlined. (Pg. 67)

Deliver our commitment at COP28 to introduce forest risk commodities legislation early in the next Parliament, tackling our impact on illegal deforestation internationally. (Pg. 67)

Designate our 11th National Park alongside investing to improve existing National Parks and protected landscapes. (Pg. 67)

Use future rounds of our Landscape Recovery Scheme to support more local projects. (Pg. 67)

Continue to work with landowners, charities and others to open up more ‘access to nature’ routes. We will not impose a universal Right to Roam. (Pg. 67)

We will deliver enhanced penalties for fly tipping, giving councils new tools to help tackle offenders. (Pg. 68)

We will continue to develop a UK-wide Deposit Return Scheme, while working to minimise the impact on businesses and consumers. (Pg. 68)

We will prevent new waste incinerators being built, including those with recent permit approvals, revoking those where substantial construction has not taken place. (Pg. 68)

Continuing to uprate the State Pension in line with the highest of prices, earnings or 2.5 per cent. (Pg. 15)

Ensuring that from next year the tax-free personal allowance for pensioners also rises by the highest of prices, earnings or 2.5 per cent, guaranteeing that the new State Pension is always below the tax-free threshold. (Pg. 15)

Reform our disability benefits so they are better targeted and reflect people’s genuine needs, while delivering a step-change in mental health provision. We will improve PIP assessments to provide a more objective consideration of people’s needs and stop the number of claims from rising unsustainably. While people suffering with mental health conditions face significant challenges, it is not clear that they always face the same additional living costs as people with physical disabilities. We will look at the best way to provide support, including whether treatment or services could be more appropriate for some people than a monthly cash payment, while also delivering a dramatic expansion in mental health support. At the same time, we will make the assessment process simpler and fairer for those with the most severe conditions. (Pg. 22)

Tighten up how the benefits system assesses capability for work. People are now three times more likely to be assessed as not fit for any work and put on the highest tier of sickness benefits than they were a decade ago. We will change the assessments from September 2025 so that those with more moderate mental health issues or mobility problems who could potentially engage with the world of work are given tailored support, instead of being written off on benefits. (Pg. 23)

Overhaul the fit note process so that people are not being signed off sick as a default. Currently, 94 per cent of fit notes are being signed off as ‘not fit for work’. We will design a new system which moves the responsibility for issuing fit notes away from our hard-pressed GPs towards specialist work and health professionals, and we will test integrating this with the new WorkWell service to provide tailored support to help people stay in or get back to work. (Pg. 23)

Introduce tougher sanctions rules so people who refuse to take up suitable jobs after 12 months on benefits can have their cases closed and their benefits removed entirely. (Pg. 23)

Accelerate the rollout of Universal Credit to ensure it always pays to work. We will move all of those remaining on outdated legacy benefits onto Universal Credit. (Pg. 23)

We will reform the Child Maintenance Service to prevent non-compliance and new laws to help crack down on non-payment. We’ll also look at how the Service can better support victims of domestic or economic abuse, building on recommendations from Dr Samantha Callan’s 2023 Independent Review. (Pg. 23)

Cut anti-social behaviour in town centres by rolling out Hotspot Policing, expanding community payback and legislating to evict social tenants who repeatedly disrupt their neighbours. (Pg. 4)

Give every neighbourhood an additional police officer by recruiting 8,000 more police officers to patrol communities and catch criminals in every ward in the country. These full time, fully warranted officers will be dedicated to neighbourhood policing. (Pg. 44)

We will urgently introduce Martyn’s Law, in tribute to Martyn Hett, who was tragically killed alongside 21 others in the Manchester Arena terrorist attack in 2017. This will ensure premises are better prepared for terrorist attacks by requiring them to take proportionate steps to mitigate risks. (Pg. 44)

We will toughen sentencing for murders that take place within the context of domestic abuse with new aggravating factors, such as if they involve coercive and controlling behaviour or gratuitous attacks. (Pg. 44)

We will expand the provision of legal aid at inquests related to major incidents where the Independent Public Advocate is appointed or in the aftermath of terrorist incidents. (Pg. 45)

We will bring the mandatory reporting provisions of the Criminal Justice Bill into force as soon as possible. (Pg. 45)

We will design a redress scheme for the victims of child sexual abuse in institutional settings that reflects their needs. (Pg. 45)

We will also ensure our elected representatives get the protection needed to represent their constituents without fear. (Pg. 46)

Invest £4.7 billion for smaller cities, towns and rural areas in the North and Midlands to spend on their transport priorities. This will cut congestion and upgrade local bus and train stations. (Pg. 8)

Empower communities through devolution and new powers. By 2030, every part of England that wants one will have a devolution deal. We will offer our ‘level 4’ devolution powers to areas in England with a devolution deal and a directly elected leader, starting with the Tees Valley. (Pg. 56)

Invest £36 billion in local roads, rail and buses to drive regional growth, including £8.3 billion to fill potholes and resurface roads, funded by cancelling the second phase of HS2. (Pg. 4)

Back drivers by stopping road pricing, reversing the London Mayor’s ULEZ expansion and applying local referendums to new 20mph zones and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. (Pg. 4)

Invest a record £8.3 billion of investment to fill potholes and resurface roads. We will bring forward funding into this financial year and the next. (Pg. 8)

Back our city regions with an additional £8.55 billion to spend on their local priorities. We will scrap rules that stop Mayors investing in strategic roads. (Pg. 8)

We will extend the £2 bus fare cap in England for the entirety of the next Parliament. The extension of the £2 fare cap will be funded by savings from reform of the railway which will save up to £1.5 billion annually. (Pg. 57)

Allow motorcycles in all bus lanes and reform motorcycle licensing. (Pg. 57)

Roll out the National Parking Platform this year to simplify paying for parking. (Pg. 57)

Reflecting feedback from older and disabled people, we will give councils the power to ban pavement parking, provided they engage with businesses and residents to ensure they are not adversely affected. (Pg. 57)

Introduce a Rail Reform Bill in our first King’s Speech to create Great British Railways (GBR), headquartered in Derby. GBR will usher in a revitalised private-public partnership, delivering a modern and innovative railway with reliable services, and simpler tickets. (Pg. 58)

Work with Active Travel England to make it safer for people to walk or cycle, including projects like ensuring safe walking routes to schools and measures to protect pedestrians, cyclists and other vulnerable road users. We will bring penalties for the rare instances where dangerous cyclists kill or injure into line with those for other road users. (Pg. 58)

Continue to ease the burden of business rates for high street, leisure and hospitality businesses by increasing the multiplier on distribution warehouses that support online shopping over time. (Pg. 7)

Retain key tax incentives that encourage small businesses to grow, including the Enterprise Investment Scheme, Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, Venture Capital Trusts, Business Asset Disposal Relief, Agricultural Property Relief and Business Relief. We will not increase Capital Gains Tax (Pg. 7)

Work with public sector organisations including local authorities and NHS trusts and companies benefitting from government contracts to ensure that procurement opportunities are focused on SMEs in their local economies where possible and practical. (Pg. 7)

Under the Family Home Tax Guarantee, we will not increase the number of council tax bands, undertake an expensive council tax revaluation or cut council tax discounts, as Labour is currently doing in Wales. (Pg. 53) 

We will maintain this pace of investment over the next Parliament through the continuation of the Multi-Sport Grassroots Facilities Programme. (Pg. 70)

We will introduce laws to ensure our fans never again face the threat of clubs in England joining breakaway closed-shop competitions and giving them more of a voice through the Independent Football Regulator. (Pg. 70)

We will prioritise equal access for women and girls in our ongoing programme of investment in grassroots sports facilities. (Pg. 70)

We will work with industry to deliver a dedicated flexible coordination service so that everyone who wants to work in the film, TV, gaming and music sectors can work on live productions whilst benefiting from at least 12 months of secure training. (Pg. 70)

We will ensure our creative sector tax incentives remain competitive. (Pg.70)

We will launch a review of the nighttime economy in England, looking at how to reverse the decline in pubs and clubs and how to make our towns and cities great places to go out. (Pg. 70)

We will legislate to deliver comparable data across the UK so the performance of public services can be accurately compared. (Pg. 72)

We will extend the UK Shared Prosperity Fund for another three years. (Pg. 72)

We will expand the Long-Term Plan for Towns. (Pg. 72)

We will maintain the Community Ownership Fund for another three years. (Pg. 72)

In the next Parliament we will improve support for people who have guide or assistance dogs and explore bidding to host and deliver the 2031 Special Olympics World Summer Games. (Pg. 60)

Introduce a legally binding target to enhance our food security. The target will apply UK-wide alongside our UK Food Security Index, the first of its kind, helping us to determine where best to concentrate farming funds. This will also feed into the development of the Land Use Framework. (Pg. 62)

Improve public sector procurement to deliver our goal that at least 50 per cent of food expenditure is spent on food produced locally or to higher environmental production standards. (Pg. 62)

Reform our planning system to deliver fast track permissions for the building of infrastructure on farms, such as glasshouses, slurry and grain stores, and small-scale reservoirs. (Pg. 62)

We will replicate the £100 million UK Seafood Fund to continue to support the fishing sector to thrive. The fund could be used to invest in harbour and fish market upgrades, provide new equipment and technology for fish processing or to support our growing aquaculture sector. (Pg. 62)