Public service
entitlements will for the first time be guaranteed to parents,
patients and communities.
New measures will also drive economic growth and create jobs.
The full plan and policy detail can be found at: www.hmg.gov.uk/buildingbritainsfuture
As a first step, the Government is today making a number of
commitments to the British people:
* We will not lose another generation to work. Every young person
who has been out of work for a year will have to take a job,
training or work experience place.
* A new, more active industrial policy to drive growth and create
the high value jobs of the future. We will establish a new £150
million Innovation Fund which will lever up to £1 billion of
private sector funding.
* By switching spending priorities, we will target investment
worth £1.5bn over the next 2 years to deliver 20,000 new
affordable homes, creating 45,000 jobs in the construction and
related sectors.
* Patients will get enforceable entitlements to the highest
standards of health care, including hospital treatment within 18
weeks, access to a cancer specialist within 2 weeks and free
health-checks on the NHS for people aged 40-74.
* Parents will be guaranteed an education individually tailored
to their child, including a personal tutor for every pupil at
secondary school, with catch up and one to one tuition for all
those who need it.
* We will give local people more power to keep their
neighbourhoods safe, including the right to hold the police to
account at monthly beat meetings, to have a say on CCTV and a vote
on how offenders pay back the community.
* We will work with the British people to deliver a radical
programme of democratic and constitutional reform. We now plan to
legislate in the 2009/10 session for further reform of the House
of Lords, including completing the process of removing the
hereditary principle. And we will now bring forward a draft bill
for a smaller and democratically constituted second chamber.
In the coming months we will build on this plan by setting out
more details in key areas, including: transport, infrastructure,
financial services, social care, climate change and energy, life
sciences and constitutional reform.
The Prime Minister said:
“In this plan for Building Britain’s Future we are determined to
take forward the reforms of the last decade. Our task after three
terms in office is not merely to defend Britain’s achievements
over the last decade but to work even harder so as to meet new
challenges with the same sense of conviction.”
Building Britain’s Future marks the start of a conversation with
the British public on the big issues facing our country.
Cabinet and Regional Ministers will be holding town hall meetings
across the country to discuss the plan.
For more information
about the consultation, go to:
www.hmg.gov.uk/buildingbritainsfuture/roadshow
Building Britain’s Future also includes the Government’s Draft
Legislative Programme for the next Parliamentary session:
www.commonsleader.gov.uk