Green manifesto: At-a-glance

The key points of the 2001 Green Party election manifesto.

Health and education

Education and health to receive higher funding

Free eye and dental treatment for all

Abolish prescription charges

Abolition tuition fees and restore student grants

Transport

Scrap the national roadbuilding programme

Renationalise railways and air traffic control

Investment in rural public transport

Safe Routes to Schools programmes

Increase fuel tax but scrap car tax

Economy

A citizen's income for all

Decentralisation of economic decision-making

Stay out of the euro

Increase tax for higher earners

Huge investment in green job creation

Scrap VAT and introduce eco-taxation to cut pollution and help fund alternatives

Tax currency speculation

Food and farming

A new ministry to ensure food safety

30% organic food production by 2010

Importation and production of GM food banned

End to genetic engineering and factory farming

Phase out the EU's Common Agricultural Policy

Energy

Cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80% from 1990 levels by 2050

UK should have a 20% reduction on 1990 levels by 2005

Energy demand should be cut to a level that can be met from renewable resources

Decommission nuclear facilities

Pollution

60% of domestic waste should be recycled by 2007

Landfill tax revenues to be used to expand local council recycling schemes

Asylum

Abolish voucher scheme

End the detention of asylum seekers

Speed up application system

Constitution

Introduce proportional representation for all levels of government

Reduce voting age to 16

Large political donations should be banned and replaced by state funding of political parties

Extend freedom of information legislation

Regional assemblies for England

Written constitution and a bill of rights

Foreign affairs

Write-off the bilateral debts of the poorest 40 nations

Aid budget increased to 1% of GDP

End the daily bombing of Iraq

Oppose the US's missile defence system

No military role for the EU

End subsidies of arms exports

Britain's armed forces should be defensive

Drugs

Possession and use of cannabis should be legalised