New Tory policies

A full list of the 25 policies announced by the Conservative Party at its conference in Bournemouth.

• Scrap AS levels
• Replace Qualifications and Curriculum Authority with independent body like the Bank of England
• Allow home-school contracts to be a condition of admission
• Allow heads and schools final say over exclusion of disruptive pupils
• Give schools independence over budgets and policies
• State scholarships to create a new type of school
• Charges for abuse of the National Health Service, such as missed appointments
• Otherwise no extension of charging in the NHS
• Foundation hospitals to have similar freedom to those in Spain
• Recognise benefit to NHS of people contributing from their own funds
• Parenting classes for parents of disruptive children
• Longer, more constructive sentences for persistent young offenders
• Drug treatment for all minors on heroin and cocaine
• New York-style neighbourhood policing
• Lifetime Savings Accounts
• Oppose Labour's suspension of right to buy for council tenants
• Extend right to buy for Housing Association tenants
• Invest the proceeds in building new social housing
• Voluntary Society Bill in first Queen's Speech
• Give voluntary organisations ability to take on government work
• Reduced regulation for care homes
• Recognise people who look after elderly relatives in their own homes
• Allow people to provide for reasonable long-term care costs
• Reduced means-testing for pensioners: pay more income as of right
• Pensioners to choose whether or not to take out an annuity.