National Policies

Key Welsh Policies

1. Stop Labour’s hospital reconfiguration plans and hold ‘proper dialogue’ with local people and medical staff before deciding on the best way to deliver local health services

2. Introduce a new business rate relief scheme for firms in Wales

3. Raise core funding for hospices from the current £2mn to £12mn a year

6. Use European funding and moneys from the private and public sector to refurbish seaside resorts to attract visitors and promote tourism

7. Protect the level of investment in agriculture, helping our dairy farmers and restoring the Tir Mynydd scheme for hill farmers to its former status

8. Support Post Offices by helping with business rates and an expanded Post Office development fund

9. Ensure the planning system is flexible enough to safeguard the economic and social viability of rural communities

10. Introduce a code of practice to encourage better recycling and limiting packaging for supermarkets

11. Legislate to give Welsh official language status

12. Pilot nurse-led walk-in health centres to give patients easier access to healthcare

13. Introduce a Guaranteed Welsh logo to promote Welsh produce and services

14. Invest in the National Eisteddfod with an annual grant to fully develop the tourism, educational and economic development opportunities generated by the event

15. Increase the number of alcohol and drug detox places, including residential care, so that people can be helped back to a productive life and away from anti-social behaviour and crime

16. Create a network of local warden resource centres to tackle petty crime and antisocial behaviour

17. £20 worth of energy efficient light bulbs for every household