Education remains Labour’s top priority. Every young person deserves the best start in life. By investing in every stage of a child’s education we can ensure that each and every child has the opportunity to reach their potential. The Tories refuse to match our investment and their new spending rule would actually cut investment in public services.
Labour’s record investment and reforms in education are transforming learning from early years right through to GCSEs and beyond. The results are clear: young people are achieving some of the best ever results at 11, 14, 16 and 18. We have doubled the amount spent per year for the typical pupil from £2,500 to £5,000 and there are 36,200 more teachers and 154,000 more teaching assistants and support staff than in 1997. Labour’s long term ambition is to raise the level of investment per pupil to today’s private school levels, an aim the Tories have refused to support.Labour remains firmly committed to an NHS that is free at the point of need with equal access for all, irrespective
of wealth. Since 1997, Labour’s investment and reforms to the NHS have transformed our health service - waiting lists are down, more lives have been saved and more patients have choice. The Tories’ promises on the NHS are at odds with their spending rule which would actually means cuts to public services. Investment in the NHS has doubled since 1997 and is set to treble by 2008.
There are now 32,000 more doctors and 85,000 more nurses than in 1997. Reforms to the NHS are creating a modern health service that is closer to the community and easier to access, as well as meeting the challenge of advances in medicine. Fewer people are waiting, and for shorter periods. In 1997 patients were waiting up to 12 hours in A&E, today 98 per cent of people are seen within 4 hours. In 1997 patients were waiting up to 18 months for operations; today patients are seen within 6 months. By 2008 each and every patient will be treated within 18 weeks of their referral. But there is still more to do and that is why the local elections on May 3rd are so important. They offer a clear choice between continued partnership with Labour in government and in power in our town halls, or cuts to public services under the Tories.
Labour’s record investment and reforms in education are transforming learning from early years right through to GCSEs and beyond. The results are clear: young people are achieving some of the best ever results at 11, 14, 16 and 18. We have doubled the amount spent per year for the typical pupil from £2,500 to £5,000 and there are 36,200 more teachers and 154,000 more teaching assistants and support staff than in 1997. Labour’s long term ambition is to raise the level of investment per pupil to today’s private school levels, an aim the Tories have refused to support.Labour remains firmly committed to an NHS that is free at the point of need with equal access for all, irrespective
of wealth. Since 1997, Labour’s investment and reforms to the NHS have transformed our health service - waiting lists are down, more lives have been saved and more patients have choice. The Tories’ promises on the NHS are at odds with their spending rule which would actually means cuts to public services. Investment in the NHS has doubled since 1997 and is set to treble by 2008.
There are now 32,000 more doctors and 85,000 more nurses than in 1997. Reforms to the NHS are creating a modern health service that is closer to the community and easier to access, as well as meeting the challenge of advances in medicine. Fewer people are waiting, and for shorter periods. In 1997 patients were waiting up to 12 hours in A&E, today 98 per cent of people are seen within 4 hours. In 1997 patients were waiting up to 18 months for operations; today patients are seen within 6 months. By 2008 each and every patient will be treated within 18 weeks of their referral. But there is still more to do and that is why the local elections on May 3rd are so important. They offer a clear choice between continued partnership with Labour in government and in power in our town halls, or cuts to public services under the Tories.
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