Election 2015 Policy Quiz Code (DO NOT EDIT)

by ELL Admin/ March 20, 2015/

Tuition fees?

Scrap them for pupils from poorer backgrounds if the subject is in science, technology, maths or engineering.
Decrease to £6,000.
Maintain and possibly increase.
Abolish.
Maintain.
Immigration?

Net immigration should be brought down to below 100,000 a year.
Low-skilled migration should be reduced but students and high-skilled migrants should not be affected.
Jobseekers Allowance benefits for migrants should depend on how good their English is.
A points system should be introduced to attract highly skilled workers, equally for EU and non-EU migrants.
No, we should reduce current immigration controls. There should be more legal rights for asylum seekers.
Housing?

First time buyers should be helped out financially.
Build 200,000 houses a year by 2020 and cap rent increases.
Build 300,000 homes a year and more garden cities should be built.
Abolish the right to buy scheme and set up a living rent commission to bring rent in line with income.
Protect the green belt and build on Brownfield sites instead.
Should we stay in the EU?

Yes, but it should be more efficient.
No.
Yes but with reforms.
We need a referendum.
We need a referendum, but if we stay hand back EU powers to local communities.
Apprenticeship schemes?

They should be funded by benefit cuts.
There should be as many people in apprenticeships as university by 2025.
There should be an extra £1 an hour for those on the lowest paid apprenticeships.
Apprenticeships should incorporate energy efficiency modules.
You should have the choice to undertake an apprenticeship instead of non-core GCSEs.
Foreign and defence policy?

Increase foreign aid to 1% of the GDP, scrap nuclear weapons and leave NATO.
Cut foreign aid by £9bn and deport anyone who has committed an act of terrorism.
Keep the foreign aid budget as it is.
Outlaw discrimination and abuse of armed Forces Personnel.
Reduce the number of trident nuclear submarines
The NHS?

5,000 more doctors should be recruited. Patients will see a GP 7 days a week.
Stop any privatisation of the NHS and create more funding through stricter tax measures.
Fund NHS through taxes from high earners and reduce waiting times for mental health treatment.
Secure more funding for NHS by quitting the EU and migrants must have approved medical insurance.
Stop privatisation, abolish prescription charges and a dedicated NHS tax.
Welfare?

Raise child benefit, withdraw winter fuel allowance from the wealthiest pensioners and repeal the ‘bedroom tax’.
The unemployed should do unpaid community work to get benefits. All pensioners will get free bus passes.
Yellow card system for benefit claimants that break the rules rather than imposing sanctions without warning.
Introduce a citizens income which will give £72 a week to every individual.
Only pay child benefit for the first two children. Noone should take up permanent residency in the UK unless they can support themselves for at least five years. Scrap ‘bedroom tax.’
Drug policy?

Reform drugs policy moving it to the Department of Health.
Keep drugs criminalised, the current strategy is working.
Keep drugs criminalised; ban the sale and distribution of legal highs.
Decriminalise cannabis and axe prison sentences for possession of drugs.
Look into alternatives to existing policies on drugs.
The Environment?

Set a legal target for decarbonising electricity by 2030 and improve the energy efficiency of homes.
Create new green jobs and invest in renewable energy.
Annual targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions, stop deforestation and advocate electrically driven transport.
Abolish green taxes and support a diverse energy market of fossil fuels, solar and thermal.
Continue with fracking and stop building wind farms.

Tuition fees?

Immigration?

Housing?

Should we stay in the EU?

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Foreign and defence policy?

The NHS?

Welfare?

Drug policy?

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