Our Top 50 Achievements!
- Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s
- Low mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.80
- Record police numbers in England, Scotland and Wales
- Cut overall crime by 35 per cent
- Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools
- Best-ever primary school results
- Funding for every pupil in England to double by 2008
- Employment is at its highest level ever
- Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries
- 85,000 more nurses
- 32,000 more doctors
- Brought back matrons to hospital wards
- Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament
- Devolved power to Welsh Assembly
- Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time
- NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice
- Gift aid was worth £625 million to charities last year
- Restored city-wide government to London
- Record number of students in higher education
- Child benefit up 25 per cent since 1997
- Created Sure Start to help children from low income households
- Introduced the Disability Rights Commission
- £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & extra £100 for over-80s
- On course to exceed Kyoto target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2010
- Negotiated the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland
- Over 30,000 more teachers in England schools
- All workers now have a right to 4 weeks’ paid holiday
- A million pensioners lifted out of relative poverty
- 800,000 children lifted out of relative poverty
- Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents
- Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships
- Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard
- Free school milk for five, six and seven-year-olds in Wales
- Banned fox hunting
- Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since the industrial revolution
- Free TV licences for over-75s
- Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals
- Waiting times for operations halved
- Free local bus travel for over-60s
- New Deal - helped over a million people into work
- Over 1.5 million child trust funds have been started
- Free eye test for over 60s
- Five, six and seven year olds in class sizes of 30 or less
- Free entry to national museums and galleries
- Overseas aid budget more than doubled
- Cancer death rates down by 12 per cent, saving 43,000 lives
- Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent
- Free nursery places for three and four-year-olds in England, Scotland and Wales
- Free fruit for all four to six-year-olds at school
