With Nationalists
already have been allocated in a 2015 spending review. None of the parties’ pledges come anything close to the promise of £350 million a week for the NHS which was dangled in front of voters during the EU referendum.
Action to tackle the housing crisis is another prominent feature of manifestos, with Jeremy Corbyn having made much of the need to prevent rough sleeping and provide new homes. This, like the health budget, is an area where MPs control only what happens south of the border, as housing is devolved.
Conservatives
Assessing the homes of those needing social care, with any value over £100,000 liable to be used to help pay for care.
£8billion for NHS England over the next five years.
One million new homes by 2020.
Press ahead with Universal Credit roll-out to ensure that it always pays to be in work.
“Tailored” employment support for disabled or people with a long-term health condition.
Labour
Scrap the “bedroom tax” and the “abhorrent” rape clause.
End benefit sanctions regime and reverse previous cuts to the disability benefit ESA.
£11.6bn for the NHS, funded by new taxes on highest earners – giving staff a pay rise and cutting one million from waiting lists.
£2bn fund to review the working of Universal Credit.
Will build 100,000 homes a year over the next parliament, provide 4,000 homes for rough sleepers and reinstate
housing benefit for under 22s.
SNP:
Support an increase in health spending per head of population in England to current Scottish level, which is seven per cent higher.
Remove the freeze on benefits, abolish the third child tax credit policy and “rape clause”.
Retain the triple lock on pensions and protect the winter fuel allowance.
Support a UK-wide alternative to austerity that will release almost £120bn for public spending over next parliament.
Liberal Democrats
Reverse cuts to universal credit and focus support on young people.
End the benefits freeze and protect the pensions triple lock.
Scrap the “bedroom tax”, and the two child limit for tax credits and the “rape clause”.
£8.5bn for the NHS, funded by a penny in the pound on income tax.
300,000 new homes a year by 2022 and reinstate housing benefit for under 22s.
UKIP
Scrap the “bedroom tax”. Review disability benefits and stop further cuts.
Ban EU Nationals entering Britain since March 2017 from claiming benefits.
Green
Increase the minimum wage to reach a genuine living wage of £10 an hour by 2020.
A social security system to redress benefits injustice.
Set up a pilot scheme as first step towards a universal basic income.