Labour’s top 50 achievement’s since being elected in 1997
1. Longest period of sustained low
inflation since the 60s.
2. Low mortgage rates.
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage
and raised it to £5.52.
4. Over 14,000 more police in England
and Wales.
5. Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
6. Record levels of literacy and
numeracy in schools.
7. Young people achieving some of the
best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
8. Funding for every pupil in England
has doubled.
9. Employment is at its highest level
ever.
10. Written off up to 100 per cent of
debt owed by poorest countries.
11. 85,000 more nurses.
12. 32,000 more doctors.
13. Brought back matrons to hospital
wards.
14. Devolved power to the Scottish
Parliament.
15. Devolved power to the Welsh
Assembly.
16. Dads now get paternity leave of 2
weeks for the first time.
17. NHS Direct offering free convenient
patient advice.
18. Gift aid was worth £828 million to
charities last year.
19. Restored city-wide government to
London.
20. Record number of students in higher
education.
21. Child benefit up 26 per cent since
1997.
22. Delivered 2,200 Sure Start
Children’s Centres.
23. Introduced the Equality and Human
Rights Commission.
24. £200 winter fuel payment to
pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
25. On course to exceed our Kyoto target
for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
26. Restored devolved government to
Northern Ireland.
27. Over 36,000 more teachers in England
and 274,000 more support staff and
teaching assistants.
28. All full time workers now have a
right to 24 days paid holiday.
29. A million pensioners lifted out of
poverty.
30. 600,000 children lifted out of
relative poverty.
31. Introduced child tax credit giving
more money to parents.
32. Scrapped Section 28 and introduced
Civil Partnerships.
33. Brought over 1 million social homes
up to standard.
34. Inpatient waiting lists down by over
half a million since 1997.
35. Banned fox hunting.
36. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking
water and air since before the
industrial revolution.
37. Free TV licences for over-75s.
38. Banned fur farming and the testing
of cosmetics on animals.
39. Free breast cancer screening for all
women aged between 50-70.
40. Free off peak local bus travel for
over-60s.
41. New Deal - helped over 1.8 million
people into work.
42. Over 3 million child trust funds
have been started.
43. Free eye test for over 60s.
44. More than doubled the number of
apprenticeships.
45. Free entry to national museums and
galleries.
46. Overseas aid budget more than
doubled.
47. Heart disease deaths down by 150,000
and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
48. Cut long-term youth unemployment by
75 per cent.
49. Free nursery places for every three
and four-year-olds.
50. Free fruit for most four to
six-year-olds at school.