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Labour's top 50 achievements

Our top 50 achievements since 1 May 1997:

1. Lowest inflation rates for 20 years
2. Lowest long term interest rates for almost 50 years
3. National Minimum Wage
4. Record police numbers in England and Wales
5. Cut overall crime by 25 per cent
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools
7. Best ever primary school results
8. Per pupil funding in England increased by £1000 by 2005/6
9. Lowest unemployment for 29 years
10. Wrote off 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest counties
11. Over 67,500 more nurses
12. 19,000 more doctors
13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards
14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament
15. Devolved power to Welsh Assembly
16. Banned anti-personnel mines
17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice at any time
18. New Deal - helped over 480,000 young people into jobs
19. 30 per cent real terms cash increase in local government funding
20. Equalised the age of consent for gay men
21. Free access to all national museums
22. Overseas aid budget almost doubled
23. Restored city wide government to London
24. Increased child benefit by £5 to £16.50 for the first child
25. Created Sure Start to help children from low income households
26. Introduced the Disability Rights Commission
27. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & extra £100 for over 80s
28. Embarked on £180 billion transport programme
29. Negotiated the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland
30. 28,000 more teachers in England schools
31. Implemented the Freedom of Information Act
32. All workers now have a right to 4 weeks’ paid holiday
33. Record rises in the state pension
34. 2.1 million children lifted out of absolute poverty
35. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents
36. Banned handguns
37. Cut long term youth unemployment by 75 per cent
38. Free nursery places for three and four year olds in Scotland
39. Free fruit for all four to six-year-olds at school.
40. Free school milk for five, six and seven year-olds in Wales
41. Record police numbers in Scotland
42. Implemented the Human Rights Act
43. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since the industrial revolution
44. Free TV licences for over -75s
45. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals
46. Every single NHS waiting list indicator is now more positive than 1997
47. Free local bus travel for the over-60s and the disabled in Wales and Scotland
48. Record number of students in higher education
49. Brought in the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, outlawing race discrimination in all public functions.
50. Five, six and seven year-olds in class sizes of 30 or less

To find out more, please visit the following pages of the Labour Party website:

• What's Labour done for... business
• What's Labour done for... equalities - race, sexual orientation, disability
• What's Labour done for... families and children
• What's Labour done for... older people
• What's Labour done for... people in developing countries
• What's Labour done for... women

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